Journal of Behavioral Public Administration

2018 - 2021

From Center for Experimental and Behavioral Public Administration
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Volume 4, issue 1, 2021

Good for you or good for us? A field experiment on motivating citizen behavior change

Syon Bhanot

Personality traits in citizen expectations towards public services

Morten Hjortskov

What makes us tolerant of administrative burden? Race, representation, and identity

Donavon Johnson and Alexander Kroll

The role of organized groups in administrative burdens of property taxation

Iuliia Shybalkina

Compared to whom? Social and historical reference points and performance appraisals by managers, students, and the general public

Amanda Rutherford, Thomas Rabovsky and Megan Darnley

Volume 3, issue 2, 2020

Leaving home ain’t easy: Citizen compliance with local government hurricane evacuation orders

Jennifer M. Connolly, Casey Klofstad and Joseph Uscinski

Child care policy and child care burden: Policy feedback effects and distributive implications of regulatory decisions

Adrienne Davidson, Samantha Burns, Linda White, Delaine Hampton and Michal Perlman

Testing behavioral interventions designed to improve on-time SNAP recertification

Leonard M. Lopoo, Colleen Heflin and Boskovski

Is self-reported social distancing susceptible to social desirability bias? Using the crosswise model to elicit sensitive behaviors

Ulrich Thy Jensen

Partisan polarization and resistance to elite messages: Results from survey experiments on social distancing

Syon Bhanot and Daniel J. Hopkins

Rallying around the flag in times of COVID-19: Societal lockdown and trust in democratic institutions

Martin Baekgaard, Julian Christensen, Jakob Madsen and Kim Sass Mikkelsen

How to encourage “Togetherness by Keeping Apart†amid COVID-19? The ineffectiveness of prosocial and empathy appeals

Nathan Favero and Mogens Jin Pedersen

Do Survey Estimates of the Public’s Compliance with COVID-19 Regulations Suffer from Social Desirability Bias?

Martin Larsen, Jacob Nyrup and Michael Bang Petersen

Effectiveness of nudges on small business tax compliance behavior

Laura L. Leets, Amber Sprenger, Robert O. Hartman, Nicholas W. Kohn, Juli Simon Thomas, Chrissy T. Vu, Sandi Aguirre and Sanith Wijesinghe

Emotional labor assessments and episodic recall bias in public engagement

William G. Resh, Cynthia Wilkes and Carmen Mooradian

Evolution and egalitarianism: A behavioral account of managers' performance pay decisions

John D. Marvel

Does city or state make a difference? The effects of policy framing on public attitude toward a solar energy program

Chien-shih Huang and Ruowen Shen

Does performance disclosure affect user satisfaction, voice, and exit? Experimental evidence from service users

Peter Rasmussen Damgaard and Poul A. Nielsen

Do political donors have greater access to government officials? Evidence from a FOIA field experiment with US municipalities

Nicholas R. Jenkins, Michelangelo Landgrave and Gabriel E. Martinez

Volume 3, issue 1, 2020

Breaking the nonprofit starvation cycle? An experimental test

Yuan Tian, Chiako Hung and Peter Frumkin

Follow the crowd: Social information and crowdfunding donations in a large field experiment

Claire van Teunenbroek and René Bekkers

Nudging towards tax compliance: A fieldwork-informed randomised controlled trial

Maris Vainre, Laura Aaben, Alari Paulus, Helleka Koppel, Helelyn Tammsaar, Keiu Telve, Katre Koppel, Kaia Beilmann and Andero Uusberg

Interpreting expectations: Normative and predictive expectations from the citizens’ viewpoint

Morten Hjortskov

Government reputational effects of COVID-19 public health actions: A job opportunity evaluation conjoint experiment

Michael J. Nelson and Christopher Witko

To shop or shelter? Issue framing effects and social-distancing preferences in the COVID-19 pandemic

Aaron Deslatte

Age-based messaging strategies for communication about COVID-19

Stephen M. Utych and Luke Fowler

Slowing COVID-19 transmission as a social dilemma: Lessons for government officials from interdisciplinary research on cooperation

Tim Johnson, Christopher T. Dawes, James H. Fowler and Oleg Smirnov

Using behavioral science to help fight the Coronavirus

Pete Lunn, Cameron A. Belton, Ciarán Lavin, Féidhlim P. McGowan, Shane Timmons and Deirdre A. Robertson

A literature review of experimental studies in fundraising

Abhishek Bhati and Ruth K. Hansen

Testing the open government recipe: Are vision and voice good governance ingredients?

Alex Ingrams, Wesley Kaufmann and Daan Jacobs

Revealing the “Hidden welfare stateâ€: How policy information influences public attitudes about tax expenditures

Matt Guardino and Suzanne Mettler

Sector bias in public programs: US nonprofit hospitals

Kenneth J. Meier and Seung-ho An

Does a business-like approach to diversity in nonprofit organizations have a chilling effect on stakeholders?

Ines Jurcevic and Rachel Fyall

Volume 2, issue 2, 2019

Free riding or discounted riding? How the framing of a bike share offer impacts offer-redemption

Elspeth Kirkman

More gender bias in academia? Examining the influence of gender and formalization on student worker rule following

Jaclyn Piatak and Zachary Mohr

Nudging healthcare professionals towards evidence-based medicine: A systematic scoping review

Rosanna Nagtegaal, Lars Tummers, Mirko Noordegraaf and Victor Bekkers

Performance information in politics: How framing, format, and rhetoric matter to politicians’ preferences

Martin Baekgaard, Nicola Belle, Søren Serritzlew, Mariafrancesca Sicilia and Ileana Steccolini

Lessons from five decades of experimental and behavioral research on accountability: A systematic literature review

Marija Aleksovska, Thomas Schillemans and Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen

Personality traits as predictors of citizen engagement with local government

Victor G. Hugg and Kelly LeRoux

The individual level effect of symbolic representation: An experimental study on teacher-student gender congruence and students’ perceived abilities in math

Laura Doornkamp, Petra Van den Bekerom and Sandra Groeneveld

Increasing immunization compliance among schools and day care centers: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Jessica Leight and Elana Safran

Rates and the Judgment of Government Performance

Oliver James and Gregg G. Van Ryzin

A panacea for improving citizen behaviors? Introduction to the symposium on the use of social norms in public administration

Peter John, Michael Sanders and Jennifer Wang

Volume 2, issue 1, 2019

What influences the willingness of citizens to coproduce public services? Results from a vignette experiment

Fabian Hattke and Janne Kalucza

Testing local descriptive norms and salience of enforcement action: A field experiment to increase tax collection

Christopher Larkin, Michael Sanders, Isabelle Andresen and Felicity Algate

Unpacking the influence of social norms and past experience on commute mode choice

Matt Biggar

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet and Alexandra van Geen

Parents' social norms and children's exposure to three behavioral risk factors for chronic disease

Oliver Drouin, Jonathan P. Winickoff and Anne N. Thorndike

If the shoe fits: Gender role congruity and evaluations of public managers

Kendall Funk

Trust in institutions: Narrowing the ideological gap over the federal budget

Kim-Lee Tuxhorn, John W. D'Attoma and Sven Steinmo

Does voluntary disclosure matter when organizations violate stakeholder trust?

Jurgen Willems and Lewis Faulk

Are public managers more risk averse? Framing effects and status quo bias across the sectors

Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Jill Nicholson-Crotty and Sean Webeck

A bayesian approach for behavioral public administration: Citizen assessments of local government sustainability performance

Aaron Deslatte

Experimental tests for gender effects in a principal-agent game

Andrew B. Whitford and Holona L. Ochs

Speaking truth in power: Scientific evidence as motivation for policy activism

Carisa Bergner, Bruce A. Desmarais and John Hird

I've booked you a place, good luck: A field experiment applying behavioral science to improve attendance at high impact recruitment events

Michael Sanders and Elspeth Kirkman

Do Freedom of Information Laws increase transparency of government? A replication of a field experiment

Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen, Peter John, Albert Meijer and Ben Worthy