全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Behavioralist as Policy Designer: The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w22886
来源ID	Working Paper 22886
	The Behavioralist as Policy Designer: The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets
	Robert Hahn; Robert D. Metcalfe; David Novgorodsky; Michael K. Price
发表日期	2016-12-05
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	We explore Tinbergen’s fundamental insight that policymakers need at least as many policy instruments as targets. We extend this idea using a large natural field experiment in water resource management. We use social comparisons and loss-framed messages to help achieve two goals of our partner utility: getting consumers to purchase drought-resistant plants and reducing water use. Our results show that seemingly related behavioral instruments can affect different household decisions. By themselves, social comparisons and loss framing have no significant impact on the number of rebate requests; when combined, however, they lead to a 36% increase in requests. Only loss framing leads to a significant increase in the purchase of drought-resistant plants, and only the social comparison reduces water consumption. These results highlight the importance of testing different combinations of instruments, particularly when policymakers have multiple goals and the relationship between instruments and goals is uncertain.
主题	Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Renewable Resources
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w22886
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580560
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Robert Hahn,Robert D. Metcalfe,David Novgorodsky,et al. The Behavioralist as Policy Designer: The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets. 2016.

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