Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity…
Unhealthy behaviors are responsible for a large proportion of health care costs and poor health outcomes. Surveys of large employers…
Parental involvement is correlated with student performance, though the causal relationship is less well established. This experiment…
We propose that people hold a belief in a favorable future (BFF), projecting that the future will change in ways advantageous to their…
We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to…
Interventions intended to change people’s behavior are ubiquitous in modern society. Some interventions produce changes in behavior that…
Should political campaigns in close races communicate that they may win (over-confidence) or that they may lose (under-confidence)? In six…
To date, field experiments on campaign tactics have focused overwhelmingly on mobilization and voter turnout, with far more limited…
Reputations often guide sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We consider situations where each player is randomly matched…
Direct experiences, we find, influence environmental risk beliefs more than the indirect experiences derived from outcomes to others. This…