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When a nudge backfires : combining (im)plausible deniability with social and economic incentives to promote behavioral change

Bolton, Gary E.; Dimant, Eugen; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2020 - This version: January 17, 2020

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. We connect three streams of literature (nudging, social preferences, and social norms) to investigate the universality...

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Requiem for a nudge : framing effects in nudging honesty

Dimant, Eugen; Kleef, Gerben A. van; Shalvi, Shaul - 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 ‘moral suasion’ based on either what other...

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Health and economic growth : reconciling the micro and macro evidence

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2022

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

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Life cycle economics with infectious and chronic diseases

Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2022

advances in the treatment of chronic diseases. Finally, we use the model to investigate behaviour and long-term health outcomes …In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health …

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Behavioral political economy : a survey

Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014

Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...

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Non-welfarist optimal taxation and behavioral public economics : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Behavioral Public Economics, July 2004

Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti - 2004

Research in behavioral economics has uncovered the widespread phenomenon of people making decisions against their own good intentions. In these situations, the government might want to intervene, indeed individuals might want the government to intervene, to induce behavior that is closer to what...

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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp - 2018

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

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Self-confidence and strategic behavior

Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - 2013

We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic concerns, and find compelling evidence supporting this hypothesis in the behavior of participants who send and respond to others ́statements of confidence about how well they have...

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Perceived wealth, cognitive sophistication and behavioral inattention

Assenza, Tiziana; Cardaci, Alberto; Delli Gatti, Domenico - 2019

By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance sheet profiles may be perceived as non fungible in a controlled frictionless environment with no probabilistic attributes. A large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in...

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Contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior among peers and the role of social proximity

Dimant, Eugen - 2020

This paper uses a novel experimental design to study the contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social proximity among peers. Across systematic variations thereof, we ﬁnd that anti-social behavior is generally more contagious than pro-social behavior. Surprisingly, we also...

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