Nudge Versus Boost: How Coherent are Policy and Theory?

By Till Grüne-Yanoff, Ralph Hertwig. Minds and Machines, 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, General Decision Sciences

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A Review of Nudges: Definitions, Justifications, Effectiveness (2020, unknown): “…assumption that the policy maker knows the true preferences and goals of decision-makers (see Section 6.1), boosts aim at expanding the decision-maker’s ability to reach his own objectives, “without making undue assumptions about what those objectives are” (Grüne-Yanoff & Hertwig, 2016, p. 156).”
Nudge: Concept, Effectiveness, and Ethics (2017, unknown): “Our evaluation is designed to better understand how to target behavior via nudges, because having a better idea of the actual underlying mechanism that guides decision making should reveal where and where not nudges are likely to be effective (Grüne-Yanoff, 2016; Grüne-Yanoff & Hertwig, 2015).”
Nudging and Boosting: Steering or Empowering Good Decisions (2017, background): “The Vision Behind Boosts In response to our distinction between nudging and boosting (in Grüne-Yanoff & Hertwig, 2016), Sunstein (2016) noted, “some of the best nudges are boosts” (p. 10), and he described educative nudges (e.g., disclosure requirements, warnings, nutrition labels, reminders) as an…”
Nudging in education (2018, background): “…‘boost’ interventions deliberately aimed at improving active decision-making capabilities by teaching individuals about behavioural barriers and skills to tackle these barriers (Grüne-Yanoff & Hertwig, 2016).2 Moreover, we include social comparison nudges and nudges using extrinsic motivation.”
From Libertarian Paternalism to Nudging—and Beyond (2015, background): “…by enriching their repertoire of skills and decision tools or by restructuring the environment such that existing skills and tools can be more effectively applied (Grüne-Yanoff and Hertwig 2015); and classical paternalistic measures, like economic incentives and legal commands or prohibitions.”
Putting nudges in perspective (2017, background): “…and a team providing a rival perspective has repackaged information provision, and consumer education more broadly, with the catchy label ‘boosts’ (Grüne-Yanoff & Hertwig, 2016; Hertwig & Ryall, 2016), informational policies such as calorie labelling can be viewed as examples of traditional…”
Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical? (2016, background): “What’s controversial, though, is whether nudges should be distinguished from what Grüne-Yanoff and Hertwig (2015) refer to as ‘boosts’, i.”