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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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effects of the policy. While there is scope for long-term behavior change, nudging might not be the right approach. …
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influence people's behaviour. This paper applies the concept of nudging to voter registration. The authors are interested not …
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We report two studies investigating whether, and if so how, different interventions affect voter registration rates. In a natural field experiment conducted before the 2015 UK General Election, we varied messages on a postcard sent by Oxford City Council to unregistered student voters...
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influence people's behaviour. This paper applies the concept of nudging to voter registration. The authors are interested not …
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effects of the policy. While there is scope for long-term behavior change, nudging might not be the right approach. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314904
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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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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This paper uses a natural field experiment to examine the effectiveness of specific nudges on tax compliance amongst firms and the self-employed in the Dominican Republic. In collaboration with the Dominican Republic's tax authority, we designed messages for more than 28,000 self-employed...
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Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology ("nudges") have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
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