Guttman-Kenney, Benedict; Adams, Paul; Hunt, Stefan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We run a field experiment and a survey experiment to study an active choice nudge. Our nudge is designed to reduce the … anchoring of credit card payments to the minimum payment. In our field experiment, the nudge reduces enrollment in Autopaying … the minimum from 36.9% to 9.6%. However, the nudge does not reduce credit card debt after seven payment cycles. Nudged …