Applying Behavioral Economics to the Public Sector

James Alm () and Carolyn Bourdeaux

Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 2013, vol. 206, issue 3, 91-134

Abstract: “Behavioral economics”, or the application of methods and evidence from other social sciences to economics, has increased greatly in significance in the last two decades. In this paper we discuss the basic elements of behavioral economics. We then assess several applications of behavioral economics to the analysis of the public sector, including specific applications to public economics and, importantly, to the closely related area of public budgeting. We conclude with suggestions on –and predictions of–topics in which future applications should prove useful.

Keywords: Behavioral economics; public economics; public budgeting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 H3 H61 H83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.ief.es/comun/Descarga.cshtml?ruta=~/do ... tas/hpe/206_Art4.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Applying Behavioral Economics to the Public Sector (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hpe:journl:y:2013:v:206:i:3:p:91-134

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics from IEF Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Miguel Gómez de Antonio ().