Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Improving immunisation coverage in rural India
Evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives in a low income setting with very low baseline immunisation rates.
Camps (immunisation clinics) with incentives (1 kg of dried beans at each immunisation and a set ...
Reminders improved the adherence to treatment guidelines of health workers
A study aimed to improve malaria treatment practices in Kenya in order to outpace reported violated cases.
The researchers opted for the intervention of reminders via SMS messages about malaria-case management over the course ...
Face-to-face feedback intervention increased voter turnout of public housing residents
A randomized field experiment was conducted to find a solution to low voter turnout in municipal elections among the economically disadvantaged.
Two variations of face-to-face canvassing intervention were applied – the standard one, where canvassers knocked ...
Evoking feelings of pride and shame increased mobilization of voters in elections
A field experiment aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms of social influence on voting behavior.
Thus, feelings of pride and shame were incorporated into a social norm intervention. One group received a postcard about ...
Low-income country improved financial health of cash transfer beneficiaries
The world bank and the government of Kenya aimed to help cash transfer beneficiaries save money and reach their productive goals.
Therefore, a package of interventions – including goal-setting, plan-making, sending SMS text reminders, ...
Improving financial health of cash transfer beneficiaries in Madagascar
To help cash transfer beneficiaries recover their financial well-being, the world bank and the government of Madagascar aimed to help them save money.
Several interventions were applied, including creating visual descriptive norms such as ...
Increasing visitors´ salience by a red flashing light improved hand hygiene
Researchers strived for improving hand hygiene compliance in a hospital.
They positioned an antibacterial dispenser in the hospital entrance. The intervention consisted of adding a simple red flashing light on the dispenser to increase ...
Using framing strategy raised GBP 750 000 in one day for charity.
In partnership with the Charities Aid Foundation and a large investment bank in the United Kingdom, BIT conducted a trial to test different methods such as personalization, reciprocity, and celebrity endorsement, to approach potential ...
Airport reduces cleaning costs using nudging.
Salience was used to reduce urinal spillage at the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Engravings of flies were made on the urinals to draw male attention, which made them aim for the fly. The reduction ...
Reducing street litter by drawing attention on green stickers
The city of Copenhagen wanted to reduce street litter as it can have a high societal cost. Roskilde University tested if saliency to put litter in the bin could be increased by adding green ...