Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Manipulating the cross-team chat default option to control toxic behavior in an online game
Psychologist and Lead Designer of Social Systems for League of Legends Jeffrey Lin and his team decided to examine how toxic behavior online can be mitigated by nudging players in the right direction.
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Specified recruiting messages increased perceptions of organization attributes and affected intentions to apply
Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Haifa decided to use the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) to examine the manner in which recruitment message specificity affects applicant attraction to organizations.
They designed ...
Reducing electricity consumption in an office building by social comparison and assignment of responsibility
Researchers from the School of Economics of the University of Cape Town along with ideas42 tried to reduce power consumption in a large provincial office building in the City of Cape Town.
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Reducing failure to appear (FTA) to court by redesigning summons forms and sending text message reminders
The New York City (NYC) Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice asked ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to design and implement inexpensive, scalable solutions to reduce the failure to appear (FTA) to ...
Increasing The Rate of Succesful Contact Between Banks And Customers In Arrears
Many homeowners still face negative equity, arrears, and ultimately the risk of repossession. One of the key behavioral challenges is encouraging homeowners at risk to engage proactively with their lenders.
The BIT tried to ...
Reducing Overdue Social Security Payments with reminders
BIT was tasked with decreasing a large portion of companies in Indonesia that were late on their payments to social security schemes.
They sent the companies an email reminder that highlighted the risk of ...
Increasing Credit Card Repayments with highlighting the essential informations
The minimum monthly repayment requirement for credit card debt in the UK leads to lower repayments over time and increases the burden of debt and interest.
BIT introduced a slider based repayment interface that ...
Encouraging Responsible Gambling via pop-up messages
In order to decrease risk of unhealthy gaming habits, BIT implemented pop-up messages to gambling websites that provide easy one-click access to responsible gambling tools such as setting deposit limits and cool-off periods.
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Price comparison nudged consumers to switch to cheaper energy
Customers in UK and Australia pay for relatively expensive energy plans instead of switching to cheaper ones, as they are unaware of other alternatives.
They introduced a personalized price comparison service from a third ...
Increasing The Number of People Who Register As Organ Donors with a simple message
In an attempt to increase the number of organ donors, BIT edited the message displayed on the NHS Organ Donor Register webpage, where people are prompted to join after registering for a driving license. ...