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. Growing consumer demand and underused pasture reserves suggest significant potential for growth. But production is fragmented … fodder, whilst need for supplements is lower amongst mobile meat producers with winter pasture. Amongst the latter, a class …
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winter pasture bases or cropland for growing supplements, but proximity to markets enables some to compensate through fodder … land. Current pasture access mechanisms and institutions almost entirely exclude small farms and households. Changes in …
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overstocking problems in low rainfall states of nature. In these cases, the insurance has an unintended negative effect on pasture …
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A nudge is a paternalistic government intervention that attempts to improve choices by changing the framing of a …
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requiring subjects to send a non-verifiable ex post announcement about their contribution. The second intervention aims to nudge … post announcement mechanism does not have a significant effect on the cooperation rate. However, the nudge leads to a … striking increase in the cooperation rate. We provide suggestive evidence that the nudge we use provides subjects with a focal …
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There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference points, and experienced versus decision utilities. There are also nudges that connect to estimating...
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Norms and nudges are both popular types of interventions. Recent years have seen the rise of "norm-nudges" - nudges whose mechanism of action relies on social norms, eliciting or changing social expectations. Norm-nudges can be powerful interventions, but they can easily fail to be effective and...
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Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. Our study questions the universality of these claims. We employ a novel four-party setup to disentangle the roles that...
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We present results from a five-year effort to design promising online and text-message interventions to improve college achievement through several distinct channels. From a sample of nearly 25,000 students across three different campuses, we find some improvement from coaching-based...
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This paper analyses a local marketing campaign that provided information about unproven age-re-lated stereotypes and the value of older workers in Germany. The campaign was designed to increase the hiring rate of older workers. Using comprehensive register data, we find that the information...
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