The book of Proverbs contains a short, powerful, and oft-repeated thought: “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Prov. 29:18).…
With the selection of Paul Ryan as the Republican vice presidential candidate, it is clear that the central issue in the presidential…
Twenty-five years ago, President Ronald Reagan angered many Democrats with a broad effort to eliminate red tape and allow states discretion…
We study whether prompts to form and recall a plan can increase individuals’
responsiveness to reminders to make and attend beneficial…
Please see RWP13-004 for the latest version of this working paper.
Individuals tend toward status quo bias: preferring existing options over new ones. There is a countervailing phenomenon: humans naturally…
The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to procrastination. We evaluate a low-cost intervention that…
So far in the current US presidential campaign, there has been virtually no attention paid to doing something about the US public debt…
We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an “evaluation nudge,” in which people…
We consider an unregulated incumbent who owns a broadband infrastructure and decides on how much access to provide to a potential entrant.…