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I investigate how disclosing information about selection for a beneficial opportunity, such as an educational program, impacts participation (take-up) of that opportunity. The conjecture is that depending on the information received and who knows about it, selection criteria can trigger personal and image concerns, which may be manifested positively (triggering pride) or negatively (triggering stigma). The program is offered as an opportunity granted by an international institution. It is free and self-paced. It consists of 9 online sessions of 30 mins each. The objective of the program is to help develop skills to better attain goals. Selection focuses on merit (high academic achievement) and identity (low socio-economic status). Targeted individuals are university students to wh...
Although autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to improve road safety in the future, public support is limited. Existing research has shown a negative correlation between the perceived risk of AVs and the acceptance of AV policies. We aim to further investigate this relationship by surveying approximately 3,000 households in Germany. We introduce a novel measure of perceived AV risk and associated cognitive uncertainty that provides insights into risk perception beyond traditional Likert scale measures. To shift risk perceptions, we employ an information provision experiment and examine its impact on risk perceptions and associated cognitive uncertainty. In addition, we analyze the relationship between risk perceptions, cognitive uncertainty, and acceptance of AV policies. Finall...
The sustainability of agrifood systems is one of the major contemporary challenges. In this context, the role of the primary sector is crucial in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring sufficient and affordable quality food for the population. The sustainability of the agricultural sector can be promoted through the development of environmental policies that adopt different types of instruments to encourage agricultural producers to adopt production practices that are sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. Among these tools, interventions that adopt a behavioral approach, particularly those based on nudging, play an increasingly important role in promoting sustainable behaviors (Blumenthal-Barby and Burroughs, 2012; Ferrari et al, 2019). Nudging is defined as...
The sustainability of agrifood systems is one of the major contemporary challenges. In this context, the role of the primary sector is crucial in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring sufficient and affordable quality food for the population. The sustainability of the agricultural sector can be promoted through the development of environmental policies that adopt different types of instruments to encourage agricultural producers to adopt production practices that are sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. Among these tools, interventions that adopt a behavioral approach, particularly those based on nudging, play an increasingly important role in promoting sustainable behaviors (Blumenthal-Barby and Burroughs, 2012; Ferrari et al, 2019). Nudging is defined ...
We plan on running an RCT in the field during the spring of 2024 with a representative sample of residents in the Oslo area (capital of Norway). We will investigate individual mobility and transport modes using surveys and an app tracking mobility. In particular we are interested in study the impact of road pricing (first best price differentiated on time and space for car driving) on travel behavior and on acceptability for such policies.
The diffusion of new technologies is a crucial driver for growth in low-income countries, especially in the agricultural sector. Motivated by theory, researchers and policymakers have relied on networks as a source of rapid knowledge diffusion, yet often with modest empirical results, suggesting that information transmission is not frictionless. We propose a mechanism that might prevent information diffusion: “knowledge hoarding.” In settings where early technology adopters (incumbents) derive rents from it, they might strategically halt its diffusion to preserve the rent their knowledge grants them. This project asks whether knowledge hoarding limit aggregate productivity gains because of distributional consequences generated by knowledge diffusion. We study this question in the contex...
This study focuses on a managerial question: when agents are competing across multiple periods, should managers reward the winners based on accumulative performance across periods with a larger prize (i.e., dynamic contest) or reward winners of each period with a smaller prize (i.e., repeated contest), to elicit higher effort? The standard economic theory would predict that the dynamic contest is optimal if agents only care about the prize they receive. However, based on evidence from the behavioral economics literature, we suggest that if managers can successfully create a social environment where the effects of certain psychological drivers of behavior become more salient, they could expect higher effort from agents in the repeated contest.
The sustainability of agrifood systems is one of the major contemporary challenges. In this context, the role of the primary sector is crucial in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring sufficient and affordable quality food for the population. The sustainability of the agricultural sector can be promoted through the development of environmental policies that adopt different types of instruments to encourage agricultural producers to adopt production practices that are sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. Among these tools, interventions that adopt a behavioral approach, particularly those based on nudging, play an increasingly important role in promoting sustainable behaviors (Blumenthal-Barby and Burroughs, 2012; Ferrari et al, 2019). Nudging is defined as...
We aim to investigate the effect of notifying individuals who are eligible for but not receiving a welfare benefit about their entitlement through targeted letters. These letters will be sent to low-income pensioners who are entitled to Pension Credit (PC), the UK's key safety net benefit for pensioners. The letters will vary in their content: a) A basic letter, informing pensioners about PC, how much they are entitled to, and how to claim b) A letter like (a) which also attempts to reduce stigma by emphasising that most eligible people claim c) A letter like (a) except with branding from AgeUK, a highly trusted third party, rather than the borough, who may not be trusted d) A letter like (a) which also emphasises that PC is private, so friends and family will not know the claimant ...
We compare investment decisions under risk (known probability of investment success) vs. ambiguity (unknown probability). We introduce ambiguity into the investment task developed by Gneezy and Potters (1997) and examine its impact on investment decisions, breaking it down into two components: a noisy prediction channel and an ambiguity attitudes channel.