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Consumption feedback and water saving : an experiment in the metropolitan area of Milan

Clò, Stefano; Reggiani, Tommaso; Ruberto, Sabrina - 2023 - WP version - January 2023

This paper questions whether informative feedback on consumption can nudge water saving behavioral change. For this purpose, we launched a five-month online information campaign which involved equipping around 1,000 households located in the province of Milan (Italy) with a smart meter. Treated...

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Nudging when the descriptive norm is low : evidence from a carbon offsetting field experiment

Carattini, Stefano; Blasch, Julia - 2020

Nudges and behavioral interventions have become a popular tool to stimulate prosocial behavior. Little is known, however, on how to design effective social interventions in contexts in which the descriptive norm is low, i.e. when a desirable behavior is only practiced by a minority within the...

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Nudging the electorate : what works and why?

Kölle, Felix; Lane, Tom; Nosenzo, Daniele; Starmer, Chris - 2017

influence people's behaviour. This paper applies the concept of nudging to voter registration. The authors are interested not …

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When nudges aren't enough : incentives and habit fomation in public transport usage

Gravert, Christina; Olsson Collentine, Linus - 2020

effects of the policy. While there is scope for long-term behavior change, nudging might not be the right approach. …

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A social norm nudge to save more : a field experiment at a retail bank

Dur, Robert A. J.; Fleming, Dimitry; Garderen, Marten van; … - 2019

A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are there-fore vulnerable to financial shocks. We examine whether a social norm nudgecan stimulate such households to save more by running a small-scale survey ex-periment and a large-scale field experiment at a retail bank in...

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A social norm nudge to save more : a field experiment at a retail bank

Dur, Robert A. J.; Fleming, Dimitry; Garderen, Marten van; … - 2021

A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This paper examines whether a social norm nudge can induce such households to save more. We ran a large-scale field experiment at a retail bank in the Netherlands. We find that...

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Differences in how and why social comparisons and real-time feedback impact resource use : evidence from a field experiment

Andor, Mark Andreas; Götte, Lorenz; Price, Michael Keith; … - 2023

We compare the behavior and welfare effects of two popular behavioral interventions for resource conservation. The first intervention is social comparison reports (SC), primarily providing consumers with information motivating behavioral change. The second intervention is real-time feedback...

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Differences in how and why social comparisons and real-time feedback impact resource use: Evidence from a field experiment

Andor, Mark Andreas; Götte, Lorenz; Price, Michael Keith; … - 2023

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When nudges aren't enough: Incentives and habit formation in public transport usage

Gravert, Christina; Collentine, Linus Olsson - 2019

In three large-scale field experiments with over 32,000 individuals, we investigate whether public transport uptake can be in uenced by behavioral interventions and by economic incentives. Despite their effectiveness in other domains, we find a tightly estimated zero for social norms and...

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Can Taste and Nudging Impact Healthy Meal Consumption? Evidence from a Lunch Restaurant Field Experiment

Thunström, Linda; Nordström, Jonas - 2012

choices may be affected by "nudging". We analyze how taste, as determined by meal attributes, and nudging affects consumption … sales of the healthy labelled meal, and its market share, is greatly impacted by its taste. Nudging, as in order of display … healthier food choices, such as information, nudging and food tax reforms. …

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