In this paper, we investigate whether or not recent state and federal changes in welfare policy -- the imposition of time-limited benefits, the use of financial sanctions for non-compliance, and the setting of strict work eligibility rules -- affect the migration of low-educated unmarried women....

This article introduces the symposium on the emerging subfield of behavioural public administration. The 9 articles of the symposium each combine a focus on behavioural theory with the use of experiments as the method for testing theoretical expectations. The contribution of this work to public...

The use of experiments has become more widespread in many previously non-experimental areas of the social sciences, including political science, economics, and public administration (to name a few). Because researchers in these areas are trained mainly in regression analysis, they tend to employ...

The choice-overload hypothesis states that increasing the number of alternatives reduces people’s motivation to choose. Possible adverse effects of choice-overload in liberalized public service markets have been discussed repeatedly, however, an empirical evaluation of whether this holds true...

This paper argues that the important work of government often goes unnoticed in the public mind because of how public goods and services are experienced psychologically by citizens. Specifically, it suggests that several cognitive mechanisms and biases—habituation, inattentional blindness,...

In this paper, we investigate whether or not recent state and federal changes in welfare policy -- the imposition of time-limited benefits, the use of financial sanctions for non-compliance, and the setting of strict work eligibility rules -- affect the migration of low-educated unmarried women....