Judging Nudging: Understanding the Welfare Effects of Nudges Versus Taxes
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- John List & Matthias Rodemeier & Sutanuka Roy & Gregory Sun, 2022. "Judging Nudging: Understanding the Welfare Effects of Nudges Versus Taxes," Framed Field Experiments 00765, The Field Experiments Website.
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JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LTV-2023-06-19 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-NUD-2023-06-19 (Nudge and Boosting)
- NEP-PUB-2023-06-19 (Public Finance)
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