We test the effectiveness of a social comparison nudge to enhance lockdown compliance during the Covid-19 pandemic, using a representative sample of the metropolitan French adult population (N=1154). Respondents were randomly assigned to a favourable/unfavourable informational feedback (daily...

This paper studies the behavioral and socio-demographic determinants of compliance with prophylactic measures against COVID-19: barrier gestures, lockdown restrictions and mask wearing. The study contrasts two types of behavioral determinants: experimentally elicited preferences (risk tolerance,...

The aim of this article is to better understand how judgments about nudge acceptability are formed and whether they can be manipulated. We conducted a randomized experiment with N=171 participants to test whether acceptability judgments could be (i) more favourable when the decision to implement...