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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 ...
Measuring Trust in Institutions
(2018-05)
In empirical studies, survey questions are typically used to measure trust; trust games are also used to measure interpersonal trust. In this paper, we measure trust in different institutions by using both trust games and ...
Testing preference formation in learning design contingent valuation (LDCV) using advanced information and repetitive treatments
(2015-04)
Policymakers have largely replaced Single Bounded Discrete Choice (SBDC) valuation by the
more statistically efficient repetitive methods; Double Bounded Discrete Choice (DBDC) and
Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE). ...
Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution
(2013-01)
Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as ...
How are you? How's it going? What's up? What's happening? Nudging people to tell us how they really are
(2016-03)
We investigate a novel approach to reduce measurement error in subjective well-being (SWB) data. Using a between-subject design, half of the subjects are asked to promise to answer the survey questions truthfully in an ...
Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
(2010-08)
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on ...
Past and present outage costs – A follow-up study of households’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages
(2019-10)
Households’ demand for electricity continues to increase. This trend per se should indicate increased disutility from power outages. On the other hand, batteries and other back-up systems have been improved and the frequency ...