Testing the Effect of Defaults on the Thermostat Settings of OECD Employees
Default options have been shown to affect behaviour in a variety of economic choice tasks, including health care and retirement savings. Less research has tested whether defaults affect behaviour in the domain of energy efficiency. This study uses data from a randomized controlled experiment in whic...
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| title_short | Testing the Effect of Defaults on the Thermostat Settings of OECD Employees |
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