BSP

Moving citizens online: Using salience & message framing to motivate behavior change

by Noah Castelo, Elizabeth Hardy, Julian House, Nina Mazar, Claire Tsai, & Min Zhao
February 16, 2017

Supplemental Material

Author Note

The authors are listed in alphabetical order. Julian House was responsible for the data analysis and interpretation; Nina Mazar was the research project lead (The findings and views expressed in this paper do not necessarily represent those of the World Bank or its Executive Directors). The research was conducted while Elizabeth Hardy was a manager in the Behavioural Insights Unit of the Government of Ontario (from 2013 to 2015). The research was supported by a TD Bank Group Research Fund awarded to BEAR.

Author Affiliation

Castelo, Columbia Business School, Columbia University; Hardy, Central Innovation Hub, Government of Canada; House, Behavioural Insights Unit (BIU), Government of Ontario, and Behavioural Economics in Action research hub (BEAR) at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; Mazar, BEAR, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and Global INsights Initiative (GINI), World Bank; and Tsai and Zhao, BEAR, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Corresponding authors’ e-mail addresses: [email protected] and [email protected].

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