Sentences with phrase «policy of nudging»

Some still advocate sticking to a policy of nudging down interest rates further, such as by scrapping a 0.1 percent floor set on money market rates.

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Although short - term interest rates did rise this year as a slightly less timid Federal Reserve (Fed) nudged the policy rate higher, for the long end of the curve it was more of the same.

February's report from the Global Public Policy Institute, «Authoritarian Advance,» catalogued the extraordinary range of parties that have been prodded or nudged or steered toward a stance more acceptable to Beijing.

So, he argues, the whole idea of democratic disagreement is becoming replaced by this kind of nudge theory and tailored service provision in areas such as crime or health policy.

Recent proposals by policy makers from the state of Hessia and the ministry of labour seek to «nudge» companies into providing occupational schemes.

However, writes Andreas T. Schmidt (University of Groningen), within an environment where private companies frequently adopt nudge strategies, public policy nudges need not have greater implications for democracy and transparency than other forms of government intervention, and can be one tool in exerting democratic control over private sector nudge tactics.

The team compared the effectiveness of nudge - type strategies with more standard policy interventions, calculating the ratio between an intervention's causal effect and its implementation cost.

With this in mind, a research team including academics and practitioners inside and outside of government examined existing studies to evaluate the relative cost effectiveness of nudges and other policy interventions.

The results showed a pattern: In each of the domains that the researchers examined, nudges were highly cost effective, often more so than the traditional policy interventions.

Governments around the world have increasingly turned to behavioral science to help address various policy problems — new research shows that some of the best - known strategies derived from behavioral science, commonly referred to as «nudges,» may be extremely cost effective.

And there are many cases in which traditional tools — such as prohibitions and mandates — are essential for achieving specific policy objectives, and nudges might not be of value.

Economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein (now a senior policy - maker in the Obama administration) present the latest, and subtlest, version of this temptation in their influential work on «nudging» people into making wiser choices.

The bottom line: This is a serious but highly imperfect attempt to nudge academe to do more to recognize and encourage scholarship which engages the real world of practice and policy.

Jay Greene reviewed the book for Education Next here and critiqued the use of behavioral nudge strategies in education policy.

Given that the point of the exercise is to nudge the academy to do more in acknowledging scholars engaged in translating research into policy and practice, I focused on active university scholars.

Policy efforts that raised the floor and eased the achievement gap did so at the expense of strong students, who were already nudging the ceiling.

But that's a meaningless assertion without asking whether there is evidence of a meaningful influence — meaning enough of a nudge to the atmosphere that the contribution from greenhouse gases is relevant to policy and personal choices, in this case in tornado zones.

They think they've got a different policy mix of nudges and sharp elbows from the federal government, to make the energy sector juuuuuust right.

Federal and state policies can guide, nudge and encourage a transition toward cleaner energy in parts of the country that long have depended on coal.

The Obama administration successfully incorporated the concept of «nudges» into their policy work.

Thought leaders and colleagues from a long list of organizations have encouraged us, nudged us and been our «media mentors», including: Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College; American Library Association (ALA); Association of Children's Museums (ACM); Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC); Catherine Cook School; Center for Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital; Center for Media and Human Development at Northwestern University; Chicago Children's Museum; Chicago Public Library; Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative; Children's Technology Review; Columbia College Chicago; CPB / PBS Ready to Learn; Early Childhood Australia Digital Policy Group and Live Wires; Early Childhood Futures, Learning Sciences Institute Australia, Australian Catholic University; Early Childhood Investigations; Early Childhood STEM Working Group; HITN Early Learning Collaborative; Illinois Computing Educators (ICE); Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Kohl Children's Museum; Language Castle; Little eLit; National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC); National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE); New America; New Zealand Tertiary College; Technology and Young Children Interest Forum of NAEYC; and Waterford Institute, Early Education and Technology for Children (EETC)