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with women in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations about menstrual … health and hygiene explicitly, and relate them to behavior and knowledge. We then provide an information intervention on … menstrual health and hygiene and observe how this changes the perceived social norms. We find that the majority of women report …
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paper examines whether a social norm nudge can induce such households to save more. We ran a large-scale field experiment at … precisely estimated. A complementary small-scale survey experiment suggests that people did notice the social norm nudge and …
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field experiment at two subsequent conferences in environmental economics, with which we examine the conference participants …
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We study the endowment effect and expectation-based reference points in the field leveraging the setup of the Socio-Economic Panel. Households receive a small item for taking part in the panel, and we randomly assign respondents either a towel or a notebook, which they can exchange at the end of...
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Every month, millions of women worldwide face challenges managing their menstrual hygiene, suffering negative impacts …, and potentially hinder, effective menstrual hygiene practices. We engaged with women in rural communities in Bangladesh to … findings show that while the information intervention succeeded in reshaping certain misconceptions and menstrual practices, it …
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Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology ("nudges") have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, and associated deaths in more than 100 countries. Our ordinary least squares multivariate regressions show that countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization...
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both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to reduce time-inconsistent behavior. A field experiment on exercising …
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In three large-scale field experiments with over 32,500 individuals, we investigate whether public transport uptake can be influenced by behavioral interventions and by economic incentives. Despite their effectiveness in other domains, we find a tightly estimated zero for social norms and...
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To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and …
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