Self-nudging is more ethical, but less efficient than social nudging
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Keywords
Choice architecture; defaults; public goods; self-nudge; online experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2023-12-18 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-NUD-2023-12-18 (Nudge and Boosting)
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