Behavior and Energy Policy

By Hunt Allcott, Sendhil Mullainathan. Science, 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Behavioral change for the circular economy: A review with focus on electronic waste management in the EU (2020, background): “Although potentially helpful in drafting effective policies and designing cost-effective infrastructure for public involvement, use of behavioral insights in technological solutions for environmental problems is not widely practiced (Allcott and Mullainathan, 2010).”
Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy (2014, background): “…electricity consumption to that of homes in their own neighborhood reduced their power consumption by as much as they would have if the cost of power had risen by 11-20 per cent, with effects thrice as large for those who were initially using the most electricity (Allcott and Mullainathan 2010).”
Making the implicit explicit: A look inside the implicit discount rate (2016, background): “…set of anomalies of individual behavior can be identified, which an emerging literature has started to analyze in the energy efficiency domain (e.g. Allcott and Mullainathan, 2010; Allcott, 2011).10 Generally, any behavioral anomaly can be due to non-standard preferences or due to behavioral…”
Behavioral Environmental Economics: Promises and Challenges (2014, result): “Moreover, the cost‐efficiency of this conservation program compares favorably with other energy efficiency programs (Allcott and Mullainathan 2010).”
A large-scale test of the effects of time discounting, risk aversion, loss aversion, and present bias on household adoption of energy-efficient technologies (2019, background): “…efficiency paradox’, according to which households fail to invest in EETs even though these appear to pay off under prevailing market conditions (e.g. Allcott and Mullainathan, 2010; Allcott, 2011; Gerarden et al., 2015, 2017; Ramos et al., 2015; Schleich et al., 2016).1 Exploring the distinct…”
Goal Setting and Energy Conservation (2014, background): “…emissions trading in the foreseeable future, economists have begun to advocate the use of behavioral “nudges,” which are non-price interventions grounded in psychology and behavioral economics, as a partial solution to attenuate the impact of climate change (Allcott and Mullainathan, 2010).”
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT (2010, background): “Dora L. Costa Bunche Hall 9272 Department of Economics UCLA Box 951477 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477 and NBER costa@econ.ucla.edu”
When should the Ask be a Nudge? The Effect of Default Amounts on Charitable Donations (2016, neutral): “Recent research has highlighted the limited generalizability from one field-intervention study to another (Allcott and Mullainathan 2010).”
Public Praise vs. Private Pay: Effects of Rewards on Energy Conservation in the Workplace (2013, background): “In a field-experiment, we tested whether social rewards lead to better results than a strictly economic approach (Allcott and Mullainathan, 2010).”
Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical? (2016, background): “74 To illustrate, Stern et al. (2010) compute that utility grant programs have the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 123 Mt per annum, compared to the 12.7 Mt savings generated through peer comparison measures, as estimated by Allcott and Mullainathan (2010).”
Diffusion of environmentally-friendly energy technologies: buy versus lease differences in residential PV markets (2013, positive): “…of more efficient and environmentally-friendly consumption and generation devices (Taylor 2008), the nature of the individual’s decision-making process has come to sharper focus (Allcott and Mullainathan 2010, Dietz 2010, Drury et al 2011, Jager 2006, Keirstead 2007, Bollinger and Gillingham 2012).”