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When nudges fail to scale : field experimental evidence from goal setting on mobile phones
Löschel, Andreas; Rodemeier, Matthias; Werthschulte, … - 2020
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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When nudges aren't enough : incentives and habit fomation in public transport usage
Gravert, Christina; Olsson Collentine, Linus - 2020
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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The effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education
Dodlova, Marina; Escobar Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023
We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children's stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and … the earthquake's aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children's health and …
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The effect of health insurance on child nutritional outcomes : evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Peru
Bernal, Noelia; Costa-Font, Joan; Ritter, Patricia - 2022
, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342877
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Nudging when the descriptive norm is low : evidence from a carbon offsetting field experiment
Carattini, Stefano; Blasch, Julia - 2020
Nudges and behavioral interventions have become a popular tool to stimulate prosocial behavior. Little is known, however, on how to design effective social interventions in contexts in which the descriptive norm is low, i.e. when a desirable behavior is only practiced by a minority within the...
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A social norm nudge to save more : a field experiment at a retail bank
Dur, Robert A. J.; Fleming, Dimitry; Garderen, Marten van; … - 2021
A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This paper examines whether a social norm nudge can induce such households to save more. We ran a large-scale field experiment at a retail bank in the Netherlands. We find that...
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The endowment effect in the general population
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472430
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Promoting child development in a universal preschool system : a field experiment
Rege, Mari; Størksen, Ingunn; Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy; … - 2019
impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and executive functioning. Compared to business as usual, the nine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012050589
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When parents decide : gender differences in competitiveness
Tungodden, Jonas; Willén, Alexander - 2022
Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field … about their children’s competitiveness preferences. Third, parents’ choices predict children's later-in-life educational …
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Taxes on unhealthy food and externalities in the parental choice of children's diet
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2019
externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103592