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Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A field experiment on conditional cooperation and default contributions
(2011-05)
The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. This paper ...
Optimal Prosocial Nudging
(2019-04)
While nudges are still mostly associated with affecting individual choices for their own long-run interest, i.e. dealing with internalities, they are increasingly used in order to reduce externalities, such as environmental ...
Social preferences are stable over long periods of time
(2012-04)
We measure people’s prosocial behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor time
contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, and in terms of voluntary money
contributions in a public good game, using the ...
Nudging as an Environmental Policy Instrument
(2019-04)
We discuss the use of green nudges – nudges intended to reduce negative externalities – as an environmental policy instrument. A review of empirical studies reveals that green nudges can have a sizeable impact on behavior ...