Showing 1 - 10 of 955
The role of a bank advisor is especially important for guiding and counseling financially distressed individuals. Using a randomized controlled survey experiment conducted on a representative sample of French individuals and priming the financial vulnerability of half the respondents, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234111
The complexities of geopolitical events, financial and fiscal crises, and the ebb and flow of personal life circumstances can weigh heavily on individuals' minds as they make critical economic decisions. To investigate the impact of cognitive load on such decisions, we conducted an incentivized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448268
Our choice of food has major impacts on the environment. At the same time, it is visible to all people with whom we spend our daily lives. This raises the question of whether people are adapting their diets to gain a green reputation, as has been observed for other environmentally relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013490731
also whether yielding or opposing a nudge affects attitudes, and whether nudging intentions (pledges) translate into … pledgers explains why nudging pledges did not result in higher actual donations. We interpret our findings in terms of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694731
promotional materials. Being embedded into a setting, which is designed to capture the attention, the latter are more effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995949
-environmental behavior. To fill this gap, we investigate the impact of mobile text reminders on households' recycling behavior in urban Peru …, by randomly varying the frequency of reminders over a nine-week treatment period. We find that reminders increase both … before the intervention. The effects are stronger if reminders are repeated over a longer period. Our findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535248
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012260629
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/10012299541
We analyze the effects of consumers' limited attention on welfare in a model of horizontal product differentiation. We … present a novel approach of modeling limited attention: an attention radius. Each consumer only notices goods that are within … her attention radius, i.e., goods that are sufficiently similar to her preferred version of the good. Limited attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287658
We analyze the effects of consumers' limited attention on welfare in a model of horizontal product differentiation. We … present a novel approach of modeling limited attention: an attention radius. Each consumer only notices goods that are within … her attention radius, i.e., goods that are sufficiently similar to her preferred version of the good. Limited attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963815