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Requiem for a Nudge : Framing Effects in Nudging Honesty
Dimant, Eugen - 2020
We examine framing effects in nudging honesty, in the spirit of the growing norm-nudge literature, by utilizing a high …-powered and pre-registered study. Across four treatments, participants received one random truthful norm-nudge that emphasized … unobservable to the experimenters. We find compelling null effects with tight confidence intervals showing that none of the norm-nudge …
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Learning from Law Enforcement
Dusek, Libor - 2020
This paper studies how punishment for past offenses affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects mediated by learning. Using administrative data from speed cameras that capture the full driving histories of more than a million cars over several years, we evaluate responses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843418
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Spite in Litigation
Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023
This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...
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Taxing sin goods and subsidizing health care
Cremer, Helmuth; de Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - 2008
We consider a two-period model. In the first period, individuals consume two goods: one is sinful and the other is not. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate this effect. In the second period, individuals can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273775
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Optimal redistributive taxation when government's and agents' preferences differ
Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2005
Paternalism, merit goods and specific egalitarianism are concepts we sometimes meet in the literature. The thing in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261157
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When a Nudge Backfires : Combining (Im)Plausible Deniability with Social and Economic Incentives to Promote Behavioral Change
Bolton, Gary - 2020
Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842390
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It's Not My Fault! Self-Confidence and Experimentation
Hestermann, Nina - 2019
We study the inference and experimentation problem of an agent in a situation where the outcomes depend on the individual’s intrinsic ability and on an external variable. We analyze the mistakes made by decision-makers who hold inaccurate prior beliefs about their ability. Overconfident...
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Information Nudges and Self-Control
Mariotti, Thomas - 2019
consumer-optimal information nudge that is of cutoff type, recommending consumption or abstinence according to the magnitude of …. We compare this nudge with those favored by a health authority or a lobbyist. When some consumers are more strongly … present-biased than others, a traffic-light nudge is optimal …
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Pawns and Queens Revisited : Public Provision of Private Goods When Individuals Make Mistakes
Pirttila, Jukka; Tenhunen, Sanna - 2021
This paper analyses the optimal tax policy and public provision of private goods when individuals differ in two respects: income-earning ability and rationality. Publicly provided goods should be overprovided or subsidised, relative to the decentralised optimum, if society's marginal valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318503
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A Theory of Indifference Based on Status-Seeking Behaviour
Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Pandey, … - 2023
psychology and economic theory literature on the causes and consequences of status-seeking behaviour. It integrates the idea in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357028