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This paper investigates time inconsistencies in food consumption based on a field experiment at a college canteen where …
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both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to reduce time-inconsistent behavior. A field experiment on exercising …
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field experiment at two subsequent conferences in environmental economics, with which we examine the conference participants …
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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 … a retail bank in the Netherlands. We find that households who are exposed to the social norm nudge click more often on a …
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mobile phones that can be used by the majority of the population. The app randomizes a goal-setting nudge prompting users to … effect of the nudge on electricity consumption among app users. A likely mechanism of the null effect is unfavorable self … biases that typically explain why goal setting affects behavior. We also find that the nudge significantly decreases the …
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decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …
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When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...
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Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...
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This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake. In assessing these effects using longitudinal analysis, this study adopts an extensive list of controls to account for compositional changes and effects, as well as different...
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