Showing 1 - 10 of 177
We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759998
of living elsewhere. When a natural disaster or other exogenous shock forces individuals to move, the net impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760194
children in the disaster are significantly more likely to bear additional children after the tsunami. This response explains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047782
-probability/high-impact risks, like floods, and whether past flood insurance purchases and flooding experience moderate the effect of defaults. Our … study uses a naturally occurring difference in experience, comparing the surveyed flood insurance choices of 1 …,187 homeowners, half of whom are in the Netherlands, where flood insurance penetration rates are low and recent flooding caused minor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291783
on flood risk capitalization into housing prices. Second, we implement a field survey in Rhode Island. We find … significant heterogeneity and sorting based on flood risk perceptions and amenity values. Third, we calibrate the model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947022
Recent large-scale randomized experiments find that helping people form implementation intentions by asking when and where they plan to act increases one-time actions, such as vaccinations, preventative screenings and voting. We investigate the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911692
We estimate the impact of student loan “nudges” on community college students' borrowing and provide the first experimental evidence of the effect of student loans on educational attainment. Nonbinding loan offers listed in students' financial aid award letters, that do not alter students'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942699
We report the results of a field experiment where we exogenously vary the use of social comparisons "nudges" and subsidies for participation in an in-home energy audit program, and follow subjects through to the subsequent purchase of durable goods. We therefore can compare the causal effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977280
“Nudge”-style interventions are often deemed “successful” if they cause large behavior change, but they are rarely subjected to full social welfare evaluations. We combine a field experiment with a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the welfare effects of one especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013172
Beginning in 1997, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed television advertisements to make major statements about a prescription drug, while referring to detailed drug information on the internet (FDA 1997; 2015). The hope was that consumers would seek additional information online to fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984103