Massive Open Online Courses are a promising educational innovation. Yet, they suffer from high drop-out rates. As a remedy, we propose a planning prompt and test its effect on course completion and further outcomes such as course engagement and satisfaction in four large-scale randomized...

Reminders and a simplified language help tax authorities to collect outstanding tax payments more efficiently. - Tax noncompliance harms both social cohesion and public welfare. In the US alone, tax underpayment averaged $39 billion per year from 2008 to 2010. How can tax authorities collect...

[Einleitung ...] Die vorliegende Studie fasst die vorhandene Forschung zu Effekten von verhaltensökonomischen Interventionen auf das Energiesparverhalten privater Haushalte systematisch zusammen und präsentiert die Ergebnisse in Form einer Meta-Analyse. Eine solche Meta-Analyse wendet...