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• Publications // 22.11.2024

  Non-Refereed Journal - Nudging for Tax Complaince
• Publications // 28.10.2024

  Refereed Journal - Nudging for Tax Compliance: a Meta-Analysis

  Governments increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. We synthesise the growing literature on nudging experiments using meta-analytical methods. We find that, relative to the baseline where [...] points, while tax morale and deterrence nudges increase compliance by additional 1.4 and 3.2 percentage points. Our further results highlight the conditions where nudges are more or less effective. Overall [...] findings imply that taxpayers are biased by various informational and behavioural constraints, and that nudges can be of some help in overcoming these frictions.
• Publications // 31.07.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis

  Governments increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. We synthesize the growing literature that evaluates nudging experiments using meta-analytical methods. We find that simple reminders increase [...] a quarter of taxpayers are compliant. Nudges that commonly refer to elements of tax morale increase compliance by another 1.4 percentage points. Deterrence nudges, which inform taxpayers about enforcement [...] percentage points increase on top of reminders. Our additional findings highlight the conditions where nudges are more effective, such as their potential when targeting sub-population of late-payers, and also
• Events // 13.03.2024

  Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes Evidence from an Information Intervention with College Students

  1pp (16%). While the treatment focused on monetary aspects, the information appears to have also nudged students’ intentions of negotiating non-monetary aspects of the job, with both males and females
• Publications // 02.01.2024

  Refereed Journal - Incentives for labour-augmenting innovations in vertical markets: The role of wage rate

  of innovation are common knowledge, then the policy-maker can elicit her preferred equilibrium by nudging more firms to adopt the technology. Instead, if the policy is introduced before the investment stage
• Publications // 16.10.2023

  Refereed Journal - Can self-set goals encourage resource conservation? Field experimental evidence from a smartphone app

  This study leverages a large RCT to examine the potential of goal-setting nudges to encourage resource conservation at scale. We randomize a feature that allows subjects to set themselves energy consumption [...] consumption targets in a popular smartphone app. We document negative effects of the nudge on app utilization and estimate null effects on energy consumption with confidence intervals that rule out estimates [...] app’s price, we estimate that the average user is willing to pay 7.41 EUR to avoid the nudge.
• Publications // 01.02.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Can Social Comparisons and Moral Appeals Increase Public Transport Ridership and Decrease Car Use?

  we do not find any effects of the social comparison alone. Our results demonstrate that norm-based nudges are able to change transportation behavior, at least temporarily.
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  Press Releases // 01.02.2023

  Moral Appeals Prompt Employees to Reduce Car Use

  on to reducing CO 2 emissions through so-called mobility budgets in combination with behavioural nudges. A field experiment conducted by ZEW Mannheim proves that in the context of a mobility budget the
• Press Releases // 15.08.2022

  Can Self-Set Goals Encourage Resource Conservation?

  numerous ways to steer individual behaviour towards sustainability. One example are nudges, such as self-set goals. Nudges can help individuals to implement privately or socially desirable actions, and are
• Publications // 18.08.2022

  Refereed Journal - The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children

  run, we know little about the effectiveness of large-scale policies or the longer-run impacts. To nudge primary school children into a long-term habit of exercising, the German state of Saxony distributed