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Lack of information about energy usage inhibits efficiency in energy conservation but can be overcome by providing simple, low-cost information. This study uses a randomized control trial to test the effect of knowledge information on the peak-avoidance behaviour of electricity consumption, with a design of various rounds of household-level message sending to test the mechanism for persistence in behaviour and habit formation process. We anticipate that our design and findings will help develop low-cost and long-lasting interventions for guiding households to choose peak-avoidance behaviour.
To balance peak and off-peak passenger flows and enhance travelers' riding experience, this experiment plan aims to innovate demand management methods, starting from the demand side, using price incentive policies to induce travelers to use the subway during off-peak hours. Achieving success in changing daily habitual behaviour often requires persistent effort. Incekara-Hafalir et al (2023) highlight the importance of self-selection in incentivising persistent effort. Further, this study will examine the mechanism of self-selection. We mainly plan to study the effectiveness of 2 kinds of mechanisms, one-time self-selection between all-or-nothing and piece-rate, and multiple-time self-selection, to incentivize change of repeated daily travel behaviours over time.
Low- and middle-income groups are historically less responsible for climate change compared to high-income groups, yet suffer the most severe consequences. Hence, they demand a fair distribution of costs to combat climate change. Among the most important factors that would encourage people to adopt more climate-friendly behaviors is that, especially the most well-off, also change their behavior. The primary objective of this research project is to examine how the perception of wealthier individuals changing their behavior influences pro-environmental behaviors. Therefore, we will compare feedback about the changes of the highest-income individuals in Europe with the average-income individuals. The study will be conducted within the EU-27 member states with a focus on regional differences.
Why do households forgo potentially profitable energy-efficiency investments? We study whether financial constraints affect not only the decision to invest, but also the decision to acquire information about an investment. Acquiring information about energy renovations may be unattractive when homeowners expect that acting on the information will require an unaffordable expenditure. In this setting, financing constraints can therefore discourage information acquisition even before an investment decision is made. We test this mechanism in a natural field experiment conducted in collaboration with a Danish municipality. We randomly assign 1,502 homeowners living in poorly energy-rated houses to receive either a standard invitation to a subsidized energy audit or the same invitation suppl...
Depression is the dominant root cause of disability across the globe and is highly prevalent among youth of Pakistan disrupting their social, occupational and personal relationships. Behavioral activation is influenced by third wave cognitive behavioral therapy and currently widely used treatment for many psychopathologies because of its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, uncomplicated nature. The present research is aimed to assess the effectiveness of the adapted version of the manual by conducting Randomized control Trial (RCT). For this purpose, hybrid approach is used thus, Brief Behavioral Activation treatment manual for depression was adapted using heuristic model for adapting interventions proposed by Castro (2006) and Ecological Validity Model. To study the effectiveness of the a...
This study examines how remittance price transparency and provider characteristics shape remittance provider choice in GCC-to-Pakistan corridors. Approximately 1,000 GCC-based senders, linked to recipient households surveyed in Pakistan, complete a discrete choice experiment. Each remittance sender receives four choice tasks (Part 1) between two hypothetical formal providers plus four choice tasks (Part 2) between a varying formal provider and a fixed, low-transparency option representing an informal provider commonly known as hawala. Transfer fee, exchange-rate margin, arrival time, payout method, and send channel vary within a blocked D-efficient design. Price transparency is a provider-level display condition applied separately and balanced across the underlying attributes, making it...
Economies around the world are increasingly setting zero-threshold emissions targets. To achieve zero-threshold emissions, market mechanisms, such as emission trading systems, encourage emission reductions where they are the most cost-efficient. We investigate whether salient sustainability achievements around reference points, such as zero-threshold emissions, serve as heuristic cues for retail investors making investment decisions in such market environments. Based on theory on heuristic decision-making, we predict that retail investors are more likely to invest in a bond disclosing emissions achieving the zero-reference point, even when the emission abatement behind this achievement is more costly than the current market price for abatement. We aim to collect process evidence for ref...
Local governments are often responsible for disaster prevention, yet they invest little before disasters that forecasters can anticipate. We test whether this under-investment reflects missing information or weak incentives. Before the 2026--27 El Ni\~no season in Peru, we send letters to the 1,248 municipalities whose districts a damage model identifies as exposed. We assign them at random to three groups of equal size, within strata of department, natural region and official hazard rating. The control letter reports the national outlook, and the first treatment adds the district's predicted damage, record and map. The second treatment adds that the same information went to the national civil-defence agency. The primary outcome is preventive spending from resources under municipal cont...
This study evaluates whether offline behavioral interventions can improve household budgeting and financial planning among people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh and currently living in Armenia. The evaluation uses a three-arm cluster randomized controlled trial across 18 communities in Shirak, Lori, Tavush and Gegharkunik. All study communities receive a social media campaign promoting household budgeting and forward financial planning. Communities are then randomly assigned to one of three conditions: social media only; social media plus printed materials and billboards; or social media plus community training sessions. The design therefore estimates the additional effect of each offline component relative to social media alone. The primary outcome is a financial planning behavior i...
We measure firms’ marginal propensity to invest (MPI) using a hypothetical windfall/loss scenario in both German and US firm survey data.