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SUBMITTER: Benartzi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5549818 | biostudies-other | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Benartzi Shlomo S Beshears John J Milkman Katherine L KL Sunstein Cass R CR Thaler Richard H RH Shankar Maya M Tucker-Ray Will W Congdon William J WJ Galing Steven S
Psychological science 20170605 8
Governments are increasingly adopting behavioral science techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of "nudge" interventions that governments are now adopting alter people's decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives. We calculated ratios of impact to cost for nudge interventions and for traditional policy tools, such as tax incentives and other financial inducements, and we found that nudge interventions often compare fav ...[more]