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A Scoping Review of Nudges for Enhancing Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following PRISMA guidelines, we conduct a scoping review on 18 empirical studies on nudging interventions for farmers in Europe and the USA. The evidence on the effectiveness of nudges is mixed. Some studies demonstrate positive outcomes, particularly when nudges are combined with other interventions; others report no effect or negative ...
Nadja El Benni +4 more
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HeliyonThis study investigated the moderating role of gender in the influence of Economics students' self-esteem on their academic engagement. This quantitative research used a descriptive cross-sectional survey design with a sample of 422 senior high school ...
Mumuni Baba Yidana, Francis Arthur
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Behavioural economics perspectives: Implications for policy and financial literacy
, 2012 This paper summarizes and highlights different approaches to behavioural economics. It includes a discussion of the differences between the “old” behavioural economics school, led by scholars like Herbert Simon, and the “new” behavioural economics, which
Altman, Morris
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The rise of behavioural economics : a quantitative assessment [PDF]
, 2014 This paper is devoted to the question of operationalising the development of behavioural economics, focussing on trends in the academic literature. The main research goal is to provide a quantitative assessment in order to answer the question of whether ...
Geiger, Niels
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The contribution of the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team [PDF]
, 2015 publication-status: Publishedtypes: ArticleThis paper appears in International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics authored by Simon James. Copyright 2015, IGI Global, www.igi-global.com.
James, Simon
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amidst dwindling state funding and the legislative withdrawal from public university research support, a heightened political process shapes the allocation of scarce tax dollars. This article explores how advocacy within the political process influences funding support for higher education from state legislatures.
Gregory M. Perry +2 more
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ŒconomiaThe purpose of this article is to address the various links between economics and anthropology. The article refers to two historical moments to characterize the relationship between these two disciplines and their boundaries. The first corresponds to the
Véronique Dutraive
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Jeremy Bentham, ‘The Psychology of Economic Man’, and Behavioural Economics
Œconomia, 2016 Section 1 briefly reviews first the received interpretation of Bentham, which sees him as having had little to do with the development of economics (excepting some passing mentions which recognize his deployment of the concept of utility or his reduction
Michael Quinn
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Human preferences and risky choices [PDF]
, 2011 There are different views on what preferences for risks are and whether they are indicators of stable, underlying generic cognitive systems. Preferences could be conceived as an attitude towards a set of properties of context, memory and affect - a ...
Juliusson, Asgeir +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Perennial bioenergy crops, such as miscanthus and switchgrass, and crop residues have the potential to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and mitigate carbon emissions. However, high establishment costs, delayed returns, and risk–return profiles that diverge from those of conventional crops can hinder incentives to adopt ...
Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao
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