Policymakers are increasingly interested these days in how they can achieve desired outcomes using 'nudges' - low … only in which types of nudge are successful in inducing citizens to register to vote, but also the reasons why some nudges … field experiment, ahead of the 2015 UK General Election, whereby postcards were sent to 7,679 unregistered students living …

). In this paper we address this question by using a measure of costly cooperation elicited in a laboratory experiment to … laboratory experiments with 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. The experiment use a version of the …

over-estimation of social preferences in the student population. -- methodology ; selection bias ; laboratory experiment … ; field experiment ; otherregarding behavior ; social preferences ; social approval ; experimenter demand …

over-estimation of social preferences in the student population. -- methodology ; selection bias ; laboratory experiment … ; field experiment ; other-regarding behavior ; social preferences ; social approval ; experimenter demand …

a natural field experiment conducted before the 2015 UK General Election, we varied messages on a postcard sent by …

) and therefore subjects self-selected into the experiment. Because the structure of their training program reduced the …-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with …