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Do Europeans like nudges? [PDF]
In recent years, many governments have shown a keen interest in ``nudges'' --- approaches to law and policy that maintain freedom of choice, but that steer people in certain directions.
Lucia A. Reisch, Cass R. Sunstein
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Abstract We implement a field experiment to study the impact of reminder messages on dental health prevention. Patients who are due to schedule a check-up receive no reminder, a neutral reminder postcard, or reminders including additional information on the benefits of prevention. Our results document a strong impact of reminders.
Altmann, Steffen, Traxler, Christian
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Can nudges be used for improved financial wellbeing? [PDF]
While behavioural biases, heuristics, and rules of thumb facilitate the decision-making process, they often lead to suboptimal choices. Policy makers exert significant efforts to help individuals make better financial decisions, thus aiming to improve ...
Werner-Masters, Katarzyna
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Nudges have become an increasingly popular policy tool and topic for academic discussions. They influence people's behavior through deliberately and smartly designing people's choice environments and framing (information about) their options.
LaFollette, Hugh, Engelen, Bart
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Experiences and Perceptions of Default Nudges [PDF]
Of the many challenges we face as individuals and as a society, several of the most important and hardest ones are behavioral. We often know what needs to be done to solve an issue, but struggle to put this knowledge into practice.
Michaelsen, Patrik
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Market nudges and autonomy [PDF]
Behavioural techniques or ‘nudges’ can be used for various purposes. In this paper, we shift the focus from government nudges to nudges used by for-profit market agents.
Engelen, Bart; id_orcid +2 more
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Nudging, Shaming and Stigmatising to Improve Population Health; Comment on: “Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging” [PDF]
Nudges are small, often imperceptible changes to how particular decisions present themselves to individuals that are meant to influence those decisions. In his editorial, ‘Nudging by shaming, shaming by nudging’, Eyal highlights links between nudges and ...
Kristin Voigt
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And How Would That Make You Feel? How People Expect Nudges to Influence Their Sense of Autonomy
ObjectiveWhile nudges are increasingly utilized in public policy settings, their potential threat to autonomous choice is the topic of heated debate.
Jonas Wachner +2 more
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Nudging to prevent the purchase of incompatible digital products online: An experimental study. [PDF]
Ensuring safe and satisfactory online shopping activity, especially among vulnerable consumers such as elderly and less educated citizens, is part of a larger set of consumer policy objectives seeking to strengthen trust in the electronic marketplace ...
Gabriele Esposito +3 more
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Nudge Transparency Is Not Required for Nudge Resistibility
In discussions of nudging, transparency is often taken to be important; it is often suggested that a significant moral consideration to take into account when nudging is whether the nudge is transparent. Another consideration taken to be relevant is whether the nudge is easy to resist.
De Marco, G, Douglas, T
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