Using Nonpecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

By Paul J. Ferraro, Michael K. Price. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Ocean Engineering, Safety Research

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Social Comparisons, Household Water Use, and Participation in Utility Conservation Programs: Evidence from Three Randomized Trials (2015, background): “The treatment that only provided technical information did not have a statistically significant impact (Ferraro et al. 2011), although subsequent work showed a statistically, but not economically, significant effect in some models (Ferraro and Price 2013).”
Behavioral Economics and Energy Conservation – A Systematic Review of Non-price Interventions and Their Causal Effects (2018, background): “%) in comparison to: control group / baseline n Dependent Variable Country Method of causal analysis Remarks 35 Ferraro and Price (2013) (2) Feedback [+ Energy saving tips, Framing (social norm)] Onetime personalized letter with heavily norm-based language about saving water, feedback from the…”
The short-run and long-run effects of behavioral interventions: Experimental evidence from energy conservation (2014, neutral): “…Volpp et al. 2009), weight loss (Anderson et al. 2009; Burke et al. 2012; John et al. 2011), water conservation (Ferraro, Miranda, and Price 2011; Ferraro and Price 2013), academic performance (Jackson 2010; Jensen 2010; Levitt, List, and Sadoff 2010; Walton and Cohen 2011), voting (Gerber,…”
The Persistent Impacts of Norm-Based Messaging and Their Implications for Water Conservation (2014, background): “…psychology and economics provide empirical evidence that interventions based on this theory provide an effective means to promote environmental conservation (see, e.g., Kurz et al., 2005; Schultz et al., 2007; Goldstein et al., 2008; Nolan et al., 2008; Allcott, 2011; Ferraro and Price, 2013).”
Rank And Response: A Field Experiment On Peer Information And Water Use Behavior (2017, background): “…draw and build on existing studies on social information, including in the water conservation context (Petersen et al., 2007; Davis, 2011; 18Thomas and Carlson (2014) 19Obama (2014) 20Community (2012) 21Nagourney and Lovett (2014) 9 Allcott, 2011; Ferraro and Price, 2013; Allcott and Rogers, 2014).”
Eco-Premium or Eco-Penalty? Eco-Labels and Quality in the Organic Wine Market (2012, neutral): “…(Schultz, 1999), towel reuse (Goldstein, Cialdini, & Griskevicius, 2008), litter reduction (Cialdini, Reno, & Kallgren, 1990), water conservation (Ferraro & Price, 2013), and energy conservation (Allcott, 2011; Costa & Kahn, 2013; Schultz, Nolan, Cialdini, Goldstein, & Griskevicius, 2007).”
Heterogeneous treatment effects and mechanisms in information-based environmental policies: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment (2013, methodology): “…economics (Greenstone and Gayer, 2009), to test the impacts of non-pecuniary, norm-based messages on environmental outcomes such as energy use (e.g., Ayres et al., 2009; Yoeli, 2009; Allcott, 2012; Costa and Kahn, 2013) and water use (e.g., Ferraro and Price, 2013; Ferraro et al., 2011).”
Prospect theory and energy efficiency (2019, background): “In the context of water consumption, Ferraro and Price (2013) find that information on social comparisons are more effective than technical information or savings-encouragement messages.3 These papers do not explicitly reference prospect theory in making their empirical findings, but the finding…”
Saving Power to Conserve Your Reputation? The Effectiveness of Private versus Public Information (2012, neutral): “Similarly, there is no effect of private information on above median users.18 While not statistically significant, these point estimates suggest that instead of a boomerang effect with below average users increasing their usage, we see the opposite with these participants further decreasing their en”
Conservation Policies: Who Responds to Price and Who Responds to Prescription? (2016, positive): “…strategies can take the form of restrictions on outdoor water use (Castledine et al. 2014; Renwick and Green 2000), information campaigns (Coleman 1999), social comparisons (Ferraro and Price 2013), or financial incentives for technology adoption (Bennear et al. 2013; Renwick and Archibald 1998).”
Stimulating Online Reviews by Combining Financial Incentives and Social Norms (2017, positive): “2012) and social norms (Gerber and Rogers 2009; Ferraro and Price 2013; Allcott 2011) in isolation, we offer a first consideration of the relative and joint effects of financial incentives and social norms on motivating pro-social behavior and found that combining financial incentives with social no”