Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Goal-setting and reminders helped students save money.
Students find it difficult to perform well academically when experiencing financial issues.
Over 2000 students at Valencia College were randomized to a treatment group, which completed a goal-setting activity to set financial goals and ...
Goal-setting, encouragement, and reminders decreased the drop-out percentage of university students.
Some students drop out of college due to a feeling of incompetence.
Over 6000 incoming students at the San Francisco State University (SFSU) were randomly assigned to either a control condition, that received ...
Emphasizing deadline, benefits of the job and simplifying the application process led to more students applying for a job.
Many students who are eligible for on-campus part-time jobs fail to apply.
In spring 2015, over 2000 freshmen eligible for such jobs at Arizona State University (ASU) were randomized into a control group, that ...
Planning aid increased enrollment in retirement savings plan.
After identifying the three key reasons why young adults neglect to save for retirement (lack of information, lack of self-control, low income), researchers developed a planning aid to help them to do so.
The ...
Defaults increase the organ donation willingness.
Participants of the experiment were asked to assume that they had just moved to a new state where the default was to not be an organ donor and they were given a choice to ...
Fee waiver increased the percentage of black and female applicants for the New York City Fire Department.
Not enough female and minority-group individuals apply to join the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).
Randomly selected applicants who were eligible for a fee waiver were exempted from the fee.
Black and ...
Goal-setting and personalization led to higher savings.
People in developing countries do not save up enough money for unexpected expenses.
The account-opening process for CARD Bank was redesigned to promote saving more money by making the clients set a saving goal ...
Commiting to future saving increased retirement savings by 10%
SMarT (Save More Tomorrow) is a savings program designed to help employees that would like to save more but lack the willpower to act on this desire.
The basic idea of the researchers when ...
Feedbacks and comparisons decreased daily energy consumption of households
An academic study examined the effects of normative information on the energy consumption of 287 households in San Marcos, CA. Some households received information about how much energy they had used in the previous ...
Reducing the hassle of filling out a form increased college enrollment.
The US Government makes billions of dollars available every year to help support low and middle-income people through higher education. However, many students fail to take advantage of this opportunity because of the hassle ...