Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Joint evaluation helped overcoming gender bias in hiring
Researchers tested an “evaluation nudge,” in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance in order to overcome gender biases in hiring. In joint evaluation, 57% of the employers preferred ...
Highlighting the behavior of others increased the likelihood of paying fines by 130%.
Different people have different motivations on following the rules, which is why many do not pay their bills in time.
In order to make people pay their fines on time, BIT designed a letter highlighting ...
Giving regular feedback to workers improved their performance
Providing workers with different feedbacks can improve their performance.
Telling physicians that 80% of other doctors prescribe fewer antibiotics led to a 3.3% decrease in prescription rate, ergo 73 406 fewer prescriptions.
Incentive payments for participation in communal tasks turned out to be ineffective when relevant social norms are present
Researchers conducted choice and field experiments in rural Mexico and Tanzania to test the influence of incentive payments on collective action to environmental services.
In each experiment, they invited people to participate in ...
Creating a social network increased the number of farmers taking up insurance by 6.74%
Researchers decided to explore the role of social networks in the decision to purchase a weather insurance product.
They designed a randomized experiment in rural China based on the introduction of a new ...
Priming inmates with their criminal identity was shown to have a positive causal effect on their rule-violating behavior as measured by their dishonesty
Researchers wanted to examine whether criminal identity influences rule-violating behavior and, more specifically, dishonesty.
They carried out an experiment in a maximum-security prison in Switzerland where half of the participants were randomly primed ...
Simplifying the application process for public services increased enrollment rates by 24%.
Residents don´t always take up the beneficial services – such as recreation centers or license plate renewals – they are eligible for. The main reason is that accessing the services is often confusing and ...
Knowing what other colleagues did increased the number of employees paying their taxes online
In the act of social pressure, people are more likely to register to services when knowing others have already done so.
A letter to businesses that their peers do their tax filings online motivated ...
Highlighting the benefits and challenges of the job increased the application rate
The Police Department in Chattanooga wished to attract a wider range of applicants. In order to do so, researchers suggested to create messages that focus not only on the highlights of the job but ...
The introduction of a monetary fine at day-care centers for late-coming parents led to a significant increase in the number of late arrivals
Researchers decided to study the effect of fines on the frequency with which parents arrive late to collect their child from day-care centers.
They conducted a field study in a group of 10 ...