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Increasing the take-up of public health services : an experiment on nudges and digital tools in Uruguay

Cuesta, Ana; Delgado, Lucia; Gallegos, Sebastián; … - 2021

In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women to make medical appointments with a digital...

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Unraveling the paradox of anticorruption messaging : experimental evidence from a tax administration reform

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Ardanaz, Martin; Cruces, Guillermo; … - 2024

Recent literature highlights a paradox in corruption prevention messaging: instead of reducing tolerance for corruption …, such campaigns can inadvertently intensify it by priming the existence of corruption while failing to diminish citizens … combating corruption often backfire among individuals with preexisting negative perceptions of corruption, we posit that an …

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Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments : evidence from a natural field experiment

Kassis, Mark; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Schreyer, Dominik; … - 2020

In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments - like R&D races - with interim feedback is difficult with company data, we examine decisions of highly...

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Do behavioral drivers matter for healthcare decision-making in times of Crisis? : a study of low-income women in El Salvador during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bernal, Pedro; Daga, Giuliana; Kossuth, Lajos; López … - 2023

Understanding health-seeking behaviors and their drivers is key for governments to manage health policies. There is a growing literature on the role of cognitive biases and heuristics in health and care-seeking behaviors, but little is known of how they might be influenced during a context of...

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Do civil servants respond to behavioral interventions? : a field experiment

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Zamora, Paula - 2021

Introducing financial incentives to increase productivity in the public sector tends to be politically and bureaucratically cumbersome, particularly in developing countries. Behavioral interventions could be a low-cost alternative, both politically and financially, although evidence of their...

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Nudging the trendsetters : increasing second-dose HPV vaccination in Bogota, Colombia

Martínez, Déborah; Díaz, Lina; Maldonado Zambrano, … - 2023

This study investigates the effectiveness of dynamic norm nudges in promoting second-dose HPV vaccinations among trendsetters-parents who initiated the firstdose HPV vaccine for their daughters between 2017-2020. Utilizing administrative data from Bogota's Secretariat of Health in a field...

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Overconfidence and gun preferences : how behavioral biases affect your safety

Cafferata, Fernando G.; Domínguez, Patricio; … - 2023

Overconfidence leads to risky behavior, including when people are around guns. Does overconfidence also shape attitudes about gun ownership and use? We evaluate this possibility by conducting nationally representative surveys in six countries in the Americas, including the United States. Results...

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Households' risk perceptions, overplacement, and financial literacy

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Fessler, Pirmin; Silgoner, Maria … - 2024

Household financial resilience is related to the availability of financial resources but also to the ability to anticipate and assess future situations and prepare for them accordingly. Overplacement describes the tendency of individuals to rate themselves better than others, i.e. they believe...

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Do you have COVID-19? : how to increase the use of diagnostic and contact-tracing apps

Martínez, Déborah; Parilli, Cristina; Rojas, Ana María; … - 2021

Diagnostic and contact tracing apps are an important weapon against contagion during a pandemic. We study how the content of the messages used to promote the apps influences adoption by conducting a survey experiment on approximately 23,000 Mexican adults. Respondents were randomly assigned to...

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Let's (not) get together! : the role of social norms in social distancing during COVID-19

Martinez, Deborah; Parilli, Cristina; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2021

While effective preventive measures against COVID-19 are now widely known, many individuals fail to adopt them. This paper provides experimental evidence about one potentially important driver of compliance with social distancing: social norms. We asked each of 23,000 survey respondents in...

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