How people decide what they want to know

T Sharot, CR Sunstein - Nature Human Behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
Immense amounts of information are now accessible to people, including information that
bears on their past, present and future. An important research challenge is to determine how …

Realizing the potential of digital development: The case of agricultural advice

R Fabregas, M Kremer, F Schilbach - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Sustainably raising agricultural productivity for the 2 billion people living in
smallholder farming households in the develo** world is critical for reducing world poverty …

A tale of two cities: Software developers working from home during the covid-19 pandemic

D Ford, MA Storey, T Zimmermann, C Bird… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core and has provoked an overnight
exodus of developers who normally worked in an office setting to working from home. The …

Should governments invest more in nudging?

S Benartzi, J Beshears, KL Milkman… - Psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Governments are increasingly adopting behavioral science techniques for changing
individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that …

Social norms and pro-environmental behavior: A review of the evidence

K Farrow, G Grolleau, L Ibanez - Ecological economics, 2017 - Elsevier
In light of the growing attention that social norm interventions have garnered as policy tools,
we review the current body of evidence on their effectiveness with respect to pro …

[HTML][HTML] Do carbon footprint labels promote climatarian diets? Evidence from a large-scale field experiment

PM Lohmann, E Gsottbauer, A Doherty… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
We estimate the causal effect of carbon footprint labels on individual food choices and
quantify potential carbon emission reductions, using data from a large-scale field experiment …

[HTML][HTML] Nudging: Progress to date and future directions

J Beshears, H Kosowsky - Organizational behavior and human decision …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Nudging in education

MT Damgaard, HS Nielsen - Economics of Education Review, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Behavioral economics and energy conservation–a systematic review of non-price interventions and their causal effects

MA Andor, KM Fels - Ecological economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Research from economics and psychology suggests that behavioral interventions can be a
powerful climate policy instrument. This paper provides a systematic review of the existing …

The use of green nudges as an environmental policy instrument

F Carlsson, C Gravert… - Review of …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article discusses the use of green nudges—behavioral interventions aimed at reducing
negative externalities—as an environmental policy instrument. We present a new framework …