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Nudging at Scale: Experimental Evidence from FAFSA Completion Campaigns / Kelli A. Bird, Benjamin L. Castleman, Jeffrey T. Denning, Joshua Goodman, Cait Lamberton, Kelly Ochs Rosinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bird, Kelli A.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26158.
- NBER working paper series no. w26158
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Nudging at Scale
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- Do nudge interventions that have generated positive impacts at a local level maintain efficacy when scaled state or nationwide? What specific mechanisms explain the positive impacts of promising smaller-scale nudges? We investigate, through two randomized controlled trials, the impact of a national and state-level campaign to encourage students to apply for financial aid for college. The campaigns collectively reached over 800,000 students, with multiple treatment arms to investigate different potential mechanisms. We find no impacts on financial aid receipt or college enrollment overall or for any student subgroups. We find no evidence that different approaches to message framing, delivery, or timing, or access to one-on-one advising affected campaign efficacy. We discuss why nudge strategies that work locally may be hard to scale effectively.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2019.
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