policies that encourage active decision-making. In an experiment designed to study passive behavior, we document three main … results. First, we demonstrate that scarcity of cognitive resources leads to passive behavior. Second, policies that encourage … active choice succeed in reducing passivity and improve decisions in the targeted domain. Third, however, these benefits of …

policies that encourage active decision-making. In an experiment designed to study passive behavior, we document three main … results. First, we demonstrate that scarcity of cognitive resources leads to passive behavior. Second, policies that encourage … active choice succeed in reducing passivity and improve decisions in the targeted domain. Third, however, these benefits of …

the implementation of high-quality defaults. Based on a laboratory experiment featuring a dual-task paradigm, we …

Both economists and psychologists are interested in understanding decision making under uncertainty. Yet, they rely on … different concepts to analyse human behaviour: Economists use economic preference parameters rooted in utility theory, while …

decide based on worse information and are more likely to regret their decision ex post. The learning-based selection effect …

psychological channels underlying such a bias is scarce. We present a laboratory experiment designed to investigate the sunk cost …

important to study their significance. We report results from a laboratory experiment exploring the subsequent behavioral …

of nudges, which is to improve decision outcomes for the individual, pro-social nudges aim to improve the social outcomes … more susceptible to the influence of this type of nudges. We report evidence from a laboratory public goods experiment …

subsequent charitable giving. To do so we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions … to the donation decision. Most importantly, we find that the spillover effects depend on how the initial pro …-social decision …