BC Madrian - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2014 - annualreviews.org
The premise of this article is that an understanding of psychology and other social science disciplines can inform the effectiveness of the economic tools traditionally deployed in …
This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic …
K Hoff, JE Stiglitz - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper is an attempt to broaden economic discourse by importing insights into human behavior not just from psychology, but also from sociology and anthropology. Whereas in …
Summary Judgment and decision making researchers have produced many insights to improve the capacity to decide. Decades of research have yielded an array of debiasing …
Consumers frequently make important financial decisions that have short-and long-term impacts on their welfare. The authors expect that these financial decisions are a function of …
Saving promotion interventions have gained momentum in international development in recent years. Our analysis investigates whether saving promotion can effectively increase …
This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive constraints that can stymie the link between financial education and financial …
Financial decisions can have lasting consequences for consumer welfare and other important decisions. This review summarizes contemporary literature on financial decision …
We conducted a field experiment to study the effect of framing future moments in time as new beginnings (or “fresh starts”). University employees (N= 6,082) received mailings with an …