The Behavioralist as Policy Designer: The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets
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- Robert Hahn & Robert D. Metcalfe & David Novgorodsky & Michael K. Price, 2016. "The Behavioralist as Policy Designer: The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets," NBER Working Papers 22886, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
technology adoption; loss aversion; social norms; water conservation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2017-02-12 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2017-02-12 (Utility Models & Prospect Theory)
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