Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective

By Raj Chetty. 2015

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits: New Evidence and Interpretation (2016, background): “A rapidly growing literature (see Chetty, 2015, for an overview) has documented how insights from behavioral economics can improve public policy making, either by improving the predictive power of economic models or by opening up the possibility of new policy tools.”
On doing better science: From thrill of discovery to policy implications (2017, background): “Our conduit to public policy should not be only via behavioral economics, as it is for some psychology theories that have been formalized by economists (Chetty, 2015).”
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, methodology): “Our estimates can thus help guide the quantitative predictions of these models.5 Third, our work contributes to the literature on boundedly rational value computation (see e.g. Gabaix, 2014; Woodford, 2012; Caplin and Dean, 2015a; Chetty, 2012).”
Shaming tax delinquents (2015, unknown): “Last, this paper is related to a growing literature on behavioral public finance that proposes the use of less traditional incentives, such as social incentives, to attain public policy goals (Chetty et al., 2014; Chetty, 2015).”
Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future (2016, unknown): “I cannot possibly do a better job of that than Raj Chetty ( 2015 ) did last year in his Ely lecture: “Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective.””
Administrative Easing: Rule Reduction and Medicaid Enrollment (2019, background): “The reforms to enrollment processes that enabled the expansion were largely precipitated by insights from behavioral economics that have increasingly gained traction in mainstream and applied policy practice (e.g., Blavin, Dorn, and Dev 2014; Chetty 2015; Bhargava and Loewenstein 2015).”
Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical? (2016, background): “BEPs should be understood as a subset of behaviorally informed public policies (e.g. Chetty, 2015).”