An Ounce of Prevention
I look at prevention through an economic lens and make three main points. First, those advocating preventive measures are often asked how much money a given measure saves. This question is misguided.
Research
A megastudy of text-based nudges encouraging patients to get vaccinated at an upcoming doctor’s appointment
Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever.
Personal Narratives Build Trust Across Ideological Divides
Lack of trust is a key barrier to collaboration across ideological divides.
When Deliberation Produces Persuasion rather than Polarization: Measuring and modeling Small Group Dynamics in a Field Experiment
This article proposes a new statistical method to measure persuasion within small groups, and applies this approach to a large-scale randomized deliberative experiment.
The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job
Machines increasingly replace people in routine job tasks.
How Economists and Non-Economists Can Get Along
Understanding the advantages and limitations of economists’ methods clarifies the value they can add to analysis of non-economic questions.
The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World
How tech companies like Google, Airbnb, StubHub, and Facebook learn from experiments in our data-driven world—an excellent primer on experimental and behavioral economics Have you logged into Facebo
Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Non-Experts for Improving Vaccine Demand
We experimentally vary signals and senders to identify which combination will increase vaccine demand among a disadvantaged population in the United States – Black and White men without a college educ
Nudges and choice architecture in organizations: New frontiers
The 2009 publication of the best-selling book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein sparked enormous interest in how choice architecture and
Comparison of toll and annuity PPPs: a case study of highway projects in India
Purpose: The use of public–private partnership (PPP) approaches for developing infrastructure has been well recognized.
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