Field experimentation and behavioral science have the potential to inform policy. Yet, many initially promising ideas show substantially lower efficacy at scale, reflecting the broader issue of the instability of scientific findings. Here, we identify two important factors that can explain...

Forecasters predicting how people change their behavior in response to a treatment or intervention often consider a set of alternatives. In contrast, those who are treated are typically exposed to only one of the treatment alternatives. For example, managers selecting a wage schedule consider a...

Moral behavior is more prevalent when individuals cannot easily distort their beliefs self-servingly. Do individuals seek to limit or enable their ability to distort beliefs? How do these choices affect behavior? Experiments with over 8,900 participants, including financial and legal...

Forecasters predicting how people change their behavior in response to a treatment or intervention often consider a set of alternatives. In contrast, those who are treated are typically exposed to only one of the treatment alternatives. For example, managers considering a wage schedule consider...

Organizations have begun using publicly-visible badges to promote ethical behaviors, such as workers’ contributions to colleagues’ projects and scientists’ engagement in transparent research practices. Across six experimental online studies, we evaluate whether badges incentivize ethical...

Prior theoretical and empirical work suggests that behavioral interventions designed to amplify image concerns promote generosity. Consumer elective pricing — where individuals choose how much to pay for products and services — provides a unique opportunity for evaluating the effectiveness...

Enhancing vaccine uptake is a critical public health challenge. Overcoming vaccine hesitancy and failure to follow-through on vaccination intentions requires effective communication strategies. We present two sequential randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to test the impact of behavioral...