This paper provides a comprehensive overview of field experiments utilizing social norms,
commitment and price-based interventions to promote energy conservation, load shifting …

This study explores the impact of bicycle-sharing infrastructure on urban transportation. We
estimate a causal effect of the Capital Bikeshare on traffic congestion in the metropolitan …

This article summarizes results from 12 empirical evaluations of observational methods in
education contexts. We look at the performance of three common covariate-types in …

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 …

In this study, I estimate a causal effect of increased billing frequency on consumer behavior. I
exploit a natural experiment in which residential water customers switched exogenously …

Economists advocate for using the price mechanism to manage water scarcity, but complex
nonlinear rate structures prevalent in markets for municipal water obscure price signals. We …

Interest in using information-based interventions to induce energy and water conservation
has increased in recent years but have shown mixed evidence of their effectiveness. This …

Modern policies are commonly evaluated not with randomized experiments but with
repeated measures designs like difference-in-differences (DID) and the comparative …

Given the widespread use of nonexperimental (NE) methods for assessing program impacts,
there is a strong need to know whether NE approaches yield causally valid results in field …

This paper meta‐analyzes 12 heterogeneous studies that examine bias in the comparative
interrupted time‐series design (CITS) that is often used to evaluate the effects of social …