examining the universities postgraduate landscape architecture table in iran, indicates the increasing growth in the establishment of this major course in most universities nationwide, since almost 10 years from the beginning of the first academic course of this major in the shahid beheshti university (sbu). as a result, every year the number of graduated entering the market is increasing in th...

We exploit the principles of choice architecture to evaluate interventions in market for reloadable prepaid cards. Participants are randomized into three card menu presentation treatments—the status quo, a regulation-inspired reform, or an enhanced reform designed minimize attribute overload—and offered choices based on prior structural estimation individual preferences. Consumers routinely cho...

Economics has hit the mainstream in the last decade with popular books like Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist reaching the masses. These authors have used their toolkits far beyond the narrow scope of money and finance and answered questions pertaining to anything from social policy to demographics to crime. Their appeal has largely been their ability to explain that small underlying fo...

Abstract Interventions that tackle ‘last mile’ behaviors in the form of improved choice architecture are fundamental to Behavioral Public Policy (BPP), yet far less attention is typically paid nature and design underlying system conditions infrastructures support these interventions. However, inattention broader impact participant engagement intervention functionality, such as barriers access d...

Previous studies have demonstrated that a multitude of options can lead to choice overload, reducing decision quality. Through controlled experiments, we examine sequential choice architectures that enable the choice set to remain large while potentially reducing the effect of choice overload. A specific tournament-style architecture achieves this goal. An alternate architecture in which subjec...

It is substantiated in the article that behavioural economics makes it possible one to move away from idealized perception of a person as completely rational decision-making subject who possesses all information about object; able form clear hierarchy own priorities, which determined by balance between benefits and costs; stable his preferences not susceptible emotional influences. For this, ne...