Showing posts with label nudges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nudges. Show all posts
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Covid vaccine boosters: promoting uptake is hard

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  A recent study published in Nature shows that inexpensive nudges (to get Covid revaccinations) can have small but measurable effects (abou...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Decline and decay of nudges

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  Here's the latest paper to suggest that small "nudges" can have much less of a lasting effect than was initially thought. Th...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Nudges, shoves, regulations and designs: debate in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Do "nudges" provide low cost solutions to big economic problems? Are they crowding out more effective, but harder or more expensiv...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Elements of Choice (Architecture) by Eric Johnson

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Eric Johnson 's new book is about choice architecture, and how when choices are presented in a confusing way, we may make bad decisions....
Friday, December 18, 2015

A skeptical look at "nudges" in the Atlantic (which reminds me of Loewenstein's 2010 op-ed in the NY Times)

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In the Atlantic, a recent complaint about the tendency to over-promote the efficacy of"nudges" as inexpensive solutions to big pr...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Alcott and Kessler on behavior and welfare changes from 'nudges"

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An NBER working paper: The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons Hunt Allcott, Judd B. Kessler NBER ...