2019
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3414328
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Can APPealing and More Informative Bills ‘Nudge’ Individuals Into Conserving Electricity?

Abstract: We use a field experiment on energy billing in a German region to evaluate the effect of two behavioral nudges (consumption feedback and social comparison) on electricity consumption. Similar experiments have revealed significant treatment effects, yet the individual variance has proven to be substantial. On grounds of these heterogeneous treatment effects and the possibility of crosscountry behavioral differences, additional experiments are warranted. For our German participants with low pretreatment consumpt… Show more

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