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Selecting the Most Effective Nudge : Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Floretta, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We evaluate a large-scale set of interventions to increase demand for immunization in Haryana, India. The policies under consideration include the two most frequently discussed tools--reminders and incentives--as well as an intervention inspired by the networks literature. We cross-randomize...
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Financial Incentives and Other Nudges Do Not Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations among the Vaccine Hesitant
Chang, Tom; Jacobson, Mireille; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Can financial incentives, public health messages and other behavioral nudges -approaches deployed by state and local governments, employers, and health systems - increase SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates among the vaccine hesitant in the US? In mid-2021, we randomly assigned unvaccinated members of...
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Does Saving Cause Borrowing?
Medina, Paolina C.; Pagel, Michaela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study whether savings nudges have the unintended consequence of additional borrowing in high-interest credit. We use data from a pre-registered experiment that encouraged 3.1 million bank customers to save via SMS messages and train a machine learning algorithm to predict individual-level...
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The $100 Million Nudge : Increasing Tax Compliance of Businesses and the Self-Employed using a Natural Field Experiment
Holz, Justin E. - 2020
, we find that firms are more impacted than the self-employed, and that firm size is critically linked to nudge …
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RCTs to Scale : Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2020
Nudge interventions have quickly expanded from academic studies to larger implementation in so-called Nudge Units in … set of 126 RCTs covering over 23 million individuals, including all trials run by two of the largest Nudge Units in the … United States. We compare these trials to a sample of nudge trials published in academic journals from two recent meta …
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Nudging the Nudger : A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
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When do "Nudges" Increase Welfare?
Allcott, Hunt; Cohen, Daniel; Morrison, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policymakers are increasingly interested in non-standard policy instruments (NPIs), or "nudges," such as simplified information disclosure and warning labels. We characterize the welfare effects of NPIs using public finance sufficient statistic approaches, allowing for endogenous prices, market...
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Show Me the Money! Incentives and Nudges to Shift Electric Vehicle Charge Timing
Bailey, Megan R.; Brown, David P.; Shaffer, Blake; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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...
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To Go Electric or To Burn Coal? A Randomized Field Experiment of Informational Nudges
Fang, Hanming; Li, King King; Shen, Peiyao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
largely ineffective, and caution should be exercised when applying plausible nudge interventions. The findings also suggest …
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The Semblance of Success in Nudging Consumers to Pay Down Credit Card Debt
Guttman-Kenney, Benedict; Adams, Paul; Hunt, Stefan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We run a field experiment and a survey experiment to study an active choice nudge. Our nudge is designed to reduce the … anchoring of credit card payments to the minimum payment. In our field experiment, the nudge reduces enrollment in Autopaying … the minimum from 36.9% to 9.6%. However, the nudge does not reduce credit card debt after seven payment cycles. Nudged …
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