Person
Eva van den Broek
Guest; behavioural economist, co-author of The Housefly Effect
Behavioural economist working mainly on policy questions for government ministries and municipalities. Co-author, with Tim den Heijer, of The Housefly Effect. Shares her own natural-experiment story from a Dutch student-loan application form, where removing a pre-selected "maximum loan" default halved the share of applicants borrowing the maximum amount (see Housefly Effect Default Cases). Covers the loss-aversion-driven "Behavioralist Goes to School" teacher-bonus study (see Loss-Framed Teacher Bonus Study), an Indian data-entry self-imposed-target productivity study (see Kaur Kremer Mullainathan Self-Imposed-Target Study), and the origin story and mechanism behind the Dunning-Kruger Effect, including the Van der Weele/Schwardmann overconfidence-signaling study.
Discussed in
- Episode 227 — 227-tiny-nudges-that-can-drastically-improve-your-life