Evaluating Behaviorally Motivated Policy: Experimental Evidence from the Lightbulb Market

By Hunt Allcott, Dmitry Taubinsky. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Designing Information Provision Experiments (2020, positive): “Allcott and Taubinsky (2015) employ the self-monitoring scale by Snyder (1974) and find no evidence that self-monitoring ability moderates the treatment effect.”
High energy burden and low-income energy affordability: conclusions from a literature review (2020, background): “Extant studies analyze the role of behavioral economics in determining and nudging people’s energy choices (Sunstein and Reisch 2014, Allcott and Taubinsky 2015, Chetty 2015).”
Attention Variation and Welfare: Theory and Evidence from a Tax Salience Experiment (2016, positive): “…work on corrective taxation in energy markets has emphasized the importance of welfare estimates that are robust to heterogeneous bias (Allcott and Taubinsky, 2015; Allcott et al., 2014).3 This article focuses on an importantly different domain and is the first, to our knowledge, to explicitly…”
The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-Benefits of Energy-Saving Technology (2019, background): “Despite this promise, energyefficient technologies are usually adopted at low rates (Allcott & Taubinsky, 2015).”
Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior (2017, background): “These type of nudges are attractive because they may be less costly and better preserve freedom of choice than regulations or price-based incentives (e.g., taxes, subsidies) (Allcott & Taubinsky 2015).”
Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research (2018, neutral): “TESS funded studies across research fields, including in economics, e.g., Walsh, Dolfin, and DiNardo (2009) and Allcott and Taubinsky (2015), as well as political science, sociology and other fields.”
Optimal Taxation with Behavioral Agents (2020, methodology): “Allcott et al. (2014) analyze optimal energy policy when consumers underestimate the cost of gas with two goods (e.g. cars and gas) and two linear tax instruments. The Ramsey and Pigou models in our paper generalize those two analyses by allowing for multiple goods with arbitrary patterns of own and”
Internal and external barriers to energy efficiency: which role for policy interventions? (2019, background): “However, Allcott and Taubinsky (2015) raise concerns about the use of standards.”
Behavioral Economics and Energy Conservation – A Systematic Review of Non-price Interventions and Their Causal Effects (2018, background): “Consequently, policy makers are now exploring nudges as a cost-effective approach for reducing energy consumption (Allcott 2015).”