Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on
education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making …

Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

Nudges influence behavior by changing the environment in which decisions are made,
without restricting the menu of options and without altering financial incentives. This paper …

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back
and de-biasing minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Behavioral design offers a …

Student attendance is critical to educational success, and is increasingly the focus of
educators, researchers and policymakers. We report the results of a randomized experiment …

Across a field study and four experiments, we examine how social norms and scrutiny affect
decisions about adding members of underrepresented populations (eg, women, racial …

This paper sets out a framework to evaluate the welfare impacts of residential energy
efficiency programs in the presence of imperfect information, behavioral biases, and …

There is increasing research on the exogenous impact of descriptive social norms on
economic behavior. The research to date has a number of limitations: 1) it has not de …

This paper presents the results from a 2.3-million-person field experiment that varies
whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job …

Global food consumption threatens climate stability and ecosystem resilience. Because hard
regulation of food choice through taxes and bans is politically difficult, behavioral …