When a Nudge Backfires:Using Observation with Social and Economic Incentives to Promote Pro-Social Behavior
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- Gary Bolton & Eugen Dimant & Ulrich Schmidt, 2018. "When a Nudge Backfires. Using Observation with Social and Economic Incentives to Promote Pro-Social Behavior," PPE Working Papers 0017, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
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Anti-Social Behavior; Experiment; Nudge; Pro-Social Behavior; Reputation;JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2019-05-06 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EVO-2019-05-06 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2019-05-06 (Experimental Economics)
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