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. We focus on regret theory and the use of "regret lotteries" for motivating behavior change. Here, findings from one …-shot settings have been used to promote regret as a tool to boost incentives in recurrent decisions across many settings. Using … theory and experiments, we replicate regret lotteries as the superior one-shot incentive; however, for repeated decisions the …
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Worker shortages are common in many industries. This paper examines the effect of government subsidies to address these shortages in the context of a reform that tied Medicaid payments to nursing home staffing levels. We find that the reform substantially increased staffing, especially for...
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interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both … to five-week post-treatment period. Comparisons to secondary treatments show that immediate incentives have larger … impacts on sleep than delayed incentives or reminders and feedback alone during the treatment period, but do not have …
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In Fall 2014, Wellesley College began mandating pass/fail grading for courses taken by first-year, first-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice and performance, using a...
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disproportionately to the incentives, suggesting that gains in the program's cost-effectiveness result from more efficient allocation of …
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increasing the labor force participation through better work incentives. Using individual-level administrative data, the paper … how social security incentives and particularly their changes over time can explain the retirement decision. We calculate …
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We use a field experiment to measure the effectiveness of financial incentives and moral suasion "nudges" to shift the … timing of electric vehicle (EV) charging. We find EV owners respond strongly to financial incentives, while nudges have no … statistically discernible effect. When financial incentives are removed, charge timing reverts to pre-intervention behavior, showing …
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We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on "clean" electricity technologies. Using natural gas …
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of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was …
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In this paper, we analyze the extent to what financial incentives have influenced individual and couples retirement … financial incentives that we link to individual survey data from the European Community Household Panel and the European Union ….54 for women). Furthermore, we find that couple incentives matter more in husband's retirement decisions than in wife …
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