requiring subjects to send a non-verifiable ex post announcement about their contribution. The second intervention aims to nudge … post announcement mechanism does not have a significant effect on the cooperation rate. However, the nudge leads to a … striking increase in the cooperation rate. We provide suggestive evidence that the nudge we use provides subjects with a focal …

classroom activity to nudge students towards thinking in a backward-inductive manner. The pedagogic innovation is in introducing …

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for …