The Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-Based Policy Instruments: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Policy Experiment

By Paul J. Ferraro, Juan Jose Miranda, Michael K. Price. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ocean Engineering

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Rank And Response: A Field Experiment On Peer Information And Water Use Behavior (2017, background): “…N G I N N O VAT I V E A N S W E R S T O T O D AY ’ S C O M P L E X E N V I R O N M E N TA L C H A L L E N G E S Syon Bhanot Ph.D. 2015, Harvard University, Public Policy *This paper won the Harvard Environmental Economics Program’s 2015 Enel Endowment Prize for the Best Paper by a Doctoral Student.”
The Persistent Impacts of Norm-Based Messaging and Their Implications for Water Conservation (2014, methodology): “Subsequent analysis by Ferraro et al. (2011) and Ferraro and Miranda (2013) highlight substantial differences in the long-run impacts of treatment.”
Behavioral Environmental Economics: Promises and Challenges (2014, background): “In their study on water demand, Ferraro et al. (2011) show that messages augmented with social comparisons may have a lasting impact, which can be detected more than two years after messages were sent.”
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).”
Effects of feedback on residential electricity demand: Findings from a field trial in Austria (2013, background): “20 For residential water use, Ferraro et al. (2011) show that norm-based feedback exhibits persistent effects, but only if the feedback involves social comparisons.”
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).”
Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation (2016, background): “Notable exceptions include Ferraro et al. (2011), Jack (2013), Samii et al. (2014) and experiments in habitat and invasive species management studies (Sutherland et al. 2004).”