Helping People help themselves

Jody Sindelar and Elizabeth Beasley ()
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Elizabeth Beasley: ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Insights from behavioral economics have the potential to generate novel interventions and policies as well as inscrease the effectiveness of standard prescriptions. Here we discuss approaches to address addictions. These insights hinge on leveraging devision-making biases to help people overcome mistakes. Examples of these strategies include changing the presentation of information, restructuring incentives, and providing opportunities for precommitment. Rigorously testing different policy ideas is key to putting them into practice. Governments should consider a systematic approach to policy development using behavioral economics.

Keywords: behavioral economics; addiction; public policies; économie comportementale; toxicomanie; politiques publiques (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12
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Published in LIEPP Policy Brief, 2014, 15, ⟨10.25647/liepp.pb.15⟩

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DOI: 10.25647/liepp.pb.15

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