How to get doctors to hand hygiene: nudge nudge

Who Is Easier to Nudge?

We study heterogeneity in the responsiveness to choice architecture, focusing on the propensity of low-income versus high-income employees to opt out of the default contribution rate in 401(k) retirement savings plans. We develop a statistical model to distinguish between two underlying sources of heterogeneity: low-income employees may be more likely to remain at the default because it is simi...

To nudge or not to nudge: cancer screening programmes and the limits of libertarian paternalism.

'Nudging--and the underlying idea 'libertarian paternalism'--to an increasing degree influences policy thinking in the healthcare sector. This article discusses the influence exerted upon a woman's choice of participation in the Danish breast screening programme in light of 'libertarian paternalism'. The basic tenet of 'libertarian paternalism' is outlined and the relationship between 'libertar...

From mechanism to virtue: evaluating Nudge-theory

Nudge Nudge Wink Wink: Elements of Face-to-Face Conversation for Embodied Conversational Agents

It will not be possible to apply exactly the same teaching process to the machine as to a normal child. It will not, for instance, be provided with legs, so that it could not be asked to go out and fill the coal scuttle. Possibly it might not have eyes. But however well these deficiencies might be overcome by clever engineering, one could not send the creature to school without the other childr...

Nudge, Embarrassment, and Restriction—Replies to Voigt, Tieffenbach, and Saghai