The Impact on Acceptability Judgments about Nudges of Framing and Consultation with the Targeted Population

Arthur Ribaillier, Ismaël Rafaï () and Dorian Jullien
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Arthur Ribaillier: Université Côte d'Azur, France

No 2021-12, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: The aim of this article is to better understand how judgments of nudges’ acceptability are formed and whether they can be manipulated. We conduct a randomized experiment to test whether acceptability judgments can be (i) enhanced when the decision to implement the nudges have been made following a consultation with the targeted population and (ii) influenced by the joint framing of the goal and effectiveness of the nudge (in terms of an increase in desirable behaviour vs. decrease in undesirable behaviour). We test those hypotheses for various nudges’ scenarios and obtain mixed results that do not clearly support our hypotheses. A surprising result that calls for further work is that mentioning that a nudge has been implemented through a consultation with the targeted population can lower its acceptability.

Keywords: behavioural public policies; nudges; acceptability; framing; consultation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D04 D90 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2021-03
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