Performance of Agglomeration Bonuses in Conservation Auctions: Lessons from a Framed Field Experiment
The incorporation of an agglomeration bonus payment to encourage spatial coordination in auction
Single-use plastics: breaking consumers’ bad habits
When it comes to getting people to change their behaviour around mindlessly throwing away single-use plastics, rather than re-using or recycling them, what small messages are most likely to prod them…
Why (field) experiments on unethical behavior are important: Comparing stated and revealed behavior
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Understanding unethical behavior is essential to many phenomena in the real world. We carry out a field experiment in a unique setting that varies the levels of reciprocity and guilt in an ethical decision. A survey more than one year before the field experiment allows us to compare at the individual level stated unethical behavior with revealed behavior in the same situation in the field. Our results indicate a strong discrepancy between stated and revealed behavior, regardless of the specific treatment in the field experiment.
Direct and Spillover Effects of a Social Information Campaign on Residential Water-Savings
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This paper investigates direct and spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at encouraging residential water savings in Colombia. The campaign was organized as a randomized field experiment, consisting of monthly delivery of consumption reports, including normative messages, for one year. Results indicate that social information and appeals to norm-based behavior reduce water use by up to 6.8% in households directly targeted by the campaign.