Top Research Papers on Behavioural Economics

Qualitative analysis of a complex model provides evidence that the effects of shield immunity and economic shutdowns are complementary, such that governments should pursue them in tandem.

Unprecedented social, environmental, political and economic challenges - such as pandemics and epidemics, environmental degradation and community violence - require taking stock of how to promote behaviours that benefit individuals and society at large. In this Review, we synthesize multidisciplinary meta-analyses of the individual and social-structural determinants of behaviour (for example, beliefs and norms, respectively) and the efficacy of behavioural change interventions that target them. We find that, across domains, interventions designed to change individual determinants can be ordere...

Measuring Behaviour is the established go-to text for anyone interested in scientific methods for studying the behaviour of animals or humans. It is widely used by students, teachers and researchers in a variety of fields, including biology, psychology, the social sciences and medicine. This new fourth edition has been completely rewritten and reorganised to reflect major developments in how behavioural studies are conducted. It includes new sections on the replication crisis, covering Open Science initiatives such as preregistration, as well as fully up-to-date information on the use of remot...

The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor. A vitally important work of philosophical anthropology, it is a devastating criticism of the theory of behaviourism, a powerful explanatory approach in psychology and philosophy when Taylor's book was first published. However, Taylor has far more to offer than a simple critique of behaviourism. He argues that in order to properly understand human beings, we must grasp that they are embodied, minded creatures with purposes, plans and goals, something entirely lacking in reductionist, scientific e...

Clear, concise, and written by experts currently lecturing in the field, Organizational Behaviour focuses exclusively on what you need to know for success in your business course and today's global economy. The text brings together a vast range of ideas, models, and concepts on organizational behaviour from an array of fields, such as psychology, sociology, history, economics, and politics. This information is presented in bite-sized, digestible pieces to create an accessible and engaging style that makes it the perfect text for introductory courses covering organizations. Key features include...

Abstract The way consumers behave is fundamental to marketing. Journal of Consumer Behaviour ( JCB ) is an international journal dedicated to publishing the latest developments of consumer behaviour. To gain an understanding of the evolution and trends in consumer behaviour, this study presents a retrospective review of JCB using bibliometric analysis. Using bibliographic records of JCB from Scopus, this study finds that consumer behaviour research in JCB has grown substantially in terms of collaboration (co‐authorships), global reach (countries), productivity (publications), and impact (citat...

This book discusses biomechanics and energetics, behaviour and the mechanical properties of the environment, certain animal structures and tools, and predictions based on laboratory studies on non-steady-state locomotor behavior in birds and fishes.

Organizational behaviour (OB) provides a framework for understanding and forecasting employee actions inside an organisation by drawing a line between private and public modes of behaving. There are some difficult organisational behaviour issues that cannot be solved by studying OB. It's a tool for solving problems that managers use to focus on one area at a time. Organisational Behaviour (OB) is a core component of many management degrees and programmes like PGDM, MBA, B.com, M.com, BBA, etc. Motivation, communication, managing groups and teams, dispute resolution, power and politics, decisio...

This study examines the determinants of e-waste recycling intention among young consumers in an emerging economy context by integrating habits into a prominent model that predicts people’s behaviour, namely, the theory of planned behaviour. Young consumers contribute significantly to the outgrowth of e-waste problem as front-runners in the consumption, generation and management processes. Survey data have been analysed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) approach as a multivariate statistical method. The findings show that the integrated model can explain more t...

Abstract In many countries farmers face pressure to adopt practices to promote sustainability and resilience while ensuring efficient business management to produce food and other agricultural products at reasonable cost. Given a policy context in which voluntary action is preferred over government regulation, understanding farmers’ motivation to embrace recommended practices has become a major subject for research. Increasingly, this endeavour is guided by the theory of planned behaviour, a reasoned action approach (Fishbein and Ajzen, 2010). We provide a brief overview of the theory of plann...

The WHO 2020 guidelines are based on the latest evidence on sedentary behaviour and health, along with interactions between sedentary Behaviour and MVPA, and support implementing public health programmes and policies aimed at increasing MVPA and limiting sedentarybehaviour.

Abstract Plastic pollution is a critical global sustainability challenge, but the social norms associated with single‐use plastics are changing. These new norms could be encouraging consumer behaviour change by highlighting which behaviours are common and acceptable. This paper explores the role of social norms in predicting plastic avoidance, using the theory of normative social behaviour (TNSB). A representative survey ( n = 1,001) was conducted measuring consumer behaviour in relation to four single‐use plastic items (bags, straws, coffee cups, and take‐away containers). Descriptive norms w...

This research investigates how entrepreneurial education activity (EEA) influences entrepreneurial behaviour (EB) by unpacking how EEA influences both entrepreneurial intention (EI) and EB and how behavioural entrepreneurial mindset (BEM) mediates the relationship between EEA and EI. This furthers research into the behavioural subdimension of entrepreneurial mindset and how this impacts the relationship between EEA and EI. Confirmatory factor analysis was used for checking the measurement model fit and psychometric properties of the measurement scales used, and structural equation modelling wa...

Behavioural screening in 24 mouse mutants identified the kinase Fgr as a driver of this pathogenic state, and interference with Fgr protected mice from inflammatory injury, and behavioural landscapes report distinct properties of dynamic environments at high cellular resolution.

The evidence suggests that CBT may slightly reduce depression but may result in little or no difference in anxiety or health-related quality of life, and the effects and safety of CBT for tinnitus in adults are uncertain.

This study first assessed participants’ neural responses when confronted with disappointments using two fundamental self-regulatory styles, self-criticism and self-reassurance, and identified neural networks associated with threat are reduced when practicing compassion, and heightened when being self-critical.

Neural recording and closed-loop manipulation during chronic stress in mice reveal causal links between dopamine, behavior and resilience and provide a link between DA neural activity, resilience and resilience-associated behaviour during the experience of stress.

Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of practitioners, teams and academics building on each other's findings across the globe. Their focus on robust evaluation means we know that this work has had an impact on important issues such as antimicrobial resistance, educational attainment and climate change. However, several critiques have also emerged; taken together, they suggest that applied behavioural science needs to evolve further over its next decade. This mani...

It is found that the contrastive loss meets a uniformity-tolerance dilemma, and a good choice of temperature can compromise these two properties properly to both learn separable features and tolerant to semantically similar samples, improving the feature qualities and the downstream performances.

Purpose Studies have highlighted concerns about the role of knowledge creation between human resource management practices and employee behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of green human resource management (green HRM) on employee green behaviour (EGB) through the mediation of environmental knowledge of lecturers in public research universities in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach This cross-sectional study examines the mechanism in which green HRM affects the EGB of lecturers through environmental knowledge in Malaysian public research universities. Smart PLS was...

"Women and Economics" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is recognised as a cornerstone of feminist literature. The work deeply examines women's social and domestic roles from an economic perspective. Gilman strikingly reveals how women's financial dependence on men hinders both their individual development and societal progress. Arguing that women can only achieve true freedom through economic independence, this book stands as a powerful manifesto that remains relevant from the time it was written to the present day.

A classification system that links six types of interventions to 13 determinants of environmental behaviour enables a theory-based understanding of when and why interventions are effective (or not) in encouraging pro-environmental behaviour and provides guidelines to practitioners to select interventions that are most likely to change the key determinant of a specific target behaviour.

Malaysia, as one of the countries that intend to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations (UN). Under the responsible consumption and production goals category, Malaysian households should take part by practising waste separation at home when the Separation at Source Initiative (SSI) under Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management Act 2007 (Act 672) launched and effective in September 2015. However, many households in Malaysia is unwilling to participate. As the local authority has taken an extrinsic motivation thru SSI, this paper will study the impact of in...

The present study develops a multilevel model that examines the effects of supervisory ethical leadership behavior at the team level on employees green behaviour mediated by CSR at the organisational level, employees well-being, and taking responsivity at the individual level. Data were collected from a sample of 936 supervisors and 2284 employees from 184 hotels in United Arab Emirates. Utilizing multisource data and multilevel path analysis, the results indicated that supervisory ethical leadership behavior has indirect effect on green behavior through CSR, employees-wellbeing and taking res...

I. INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF ECONOMIC CONCEPTS 1. Introduction 2. Review of the Economist's Arsenal II. THE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION OF SPORTS 3. Sports Franchises as Profit-Maximizing Firms 4. Monopoly and Antitrust 5. Competitive Balance III. THE PUBLIC FINANCE OF SPORTS 6. The Public Finance of Sports: The Market for Sports Franchises 7. The Costs and Benefits of a Franchise to a City IV. THE LABOR ECONOMICS OF SPORTS 8. An Introduction to Labor Markets in Professional Sports 9. Labor Unions and Labor Relations 10. Discrimination 11. The Economics of Amateurism and College Sports

Economics of Aquaculture presents basic economic theory in a concise and logical format which is easily adaptable to practical application. Examples of economic solutions to common problems help you understand the need for economic application to aquaculture and the success that may come with sound economic planning and management. It also provides coverage of virtually all basic principles of microeconomics, farm management finance, and marketing applicable to the aquacultural industry. You will "walk" through the intricate maze of decisions which are necessary for success in the business env...

Public attitudes and policies toward LGBTQ individuals have improved substantially in recent decades. Economists are actively shaping the discourse around these policies and contributing to our understanding of the economic lives of LGBTQ individuals. In this paper, we present the most up-to-date estimates of the size, location, demographic characteristics, and family structures of LGBTQ individuals in the United States. We describe an emerging literature on the effects of legal access to same-sex marriage on family and socioeconomic outcomes. We also summarize what is known about the size, di...

The object of Marshall and Marshall's Economics of Industry was to construct, on the lines laid down in Mill's Political Economy, a theory of value, wages, and profits which shall include the chief results of the work of the present generation of economists. The result is a seminal economics work of the 18th century and beyond. Packed into this slim volume is material based upon the foundations of Mill's work.

This paper brings together methodological, theoretical, and empirical analysis into the framework of linguistic diversity. It reflects both historical and contemporary research by economists and other social scientists on the impact of language on economic outcomes and public policies. We examine whether and how language influences human thinking (including emotions) and behavior, and analyze the effects of linguistic distances on trade, migrations, financial markets, language learning, and its returns. The quantitative foundations of linguistic diversity, which rely on group identification, l...

Welfare and well-being have traditionally been gauged by using income and employment statistics, life expectancy, and other objective measures. The Economics of Happiness, which is based on people’s reports of how their lives are going, provides a complementary yet radically different approach to studying human well-being. Typically, subjective well-being measures include positive and negative feelings (e.g., momentary experiences of happiness or stress), life evaluations (e.g., life satisfaction), and feelings of having a life purpose. Both businesses and policymakers now increasingly make de...

Abstract Sustainable agriculture requires cooperative and coordinated action across multiple sectors and policy domains. However, farmer-stakeholder behaviors and action remain pivotal to sustainable food system management in many rural development contexts. We assess farmer pro-environmental behavioral intention through the development and application of a novel integrated approach combining two dominant psychological theories of behavior change: the Norm Activation Model (NAM) and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). We apply this framework to targeted research with potato growers of Kerman Pro...

The purpose of this study is to understand and add to the growing literature on generation Y's green behaviour on green products. It also validates the extended theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model and the green contextual factors (GCF) in Nigeria. The research examines the behaviour of a sample of 300 generation Y green consumers within the age of 18–32 who live in the urban living area in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)-Abuja, Nigeria. The study uses a quantitative research approach to design the research model. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) are used to ...

A lower poverty rate, higher mean number of years of education, and a greater proportion of people expressing interpersonal trust were statistically associated with lower infection and death rates, and states where larger percentages of the population identify as Black (non-Hispanic) or Hispanic were associated with higher cumulative death rates.

Most practical interventions the tourism industry deploys to make tourists behave in more environmentally sustainable ways when they are at their premises or destination – such as the request to reuse towels to protect the environment – rely on attention and cognitive processing. We propose that focusing instead on habit, as the key construct, will be more effective in achieving behavioural change. This study discusses the – largely neglected – role of habit in our understanding of tourist behaviour and provides initial empirical proof of concept of the explanatory power of habit. Findings sug...

Purpose: People with knee osteoarthritis (OA) are known to exhibit overactivity of the knee muscles in standing and during functional tasks, such as walking. Such overactivity will increase mechanical loading on the knee joint and surrounding structures and is likely to stimulate nociceptive input to the central nervous system. Emerging research has demonstrated a link between increased knee muscle activity and postural control, indicating the need to integrate postural training into future physiotherapist-led interventions for knee OA.

It is found that coupling between distinct domains of social interaction is critical for the spread of prosociality in human societies, and across a diverse space of structures, coupling between layers tends to promote prosocial behavior.

Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but the effectiveness of this strategy is hard to observe. Using data from private pollution sensors, cell phones, social media posts and internet search activity, we find that during large wildfire smoke events, individuals in wealthy locations increasingly search for information about air quality and health protection, stay at home more and are unhappier. Residents of lower-income neighbourhoods exhibit simila...

Evidence of the gut microbiome's interactions with various aspects of host sociality, including sociability, social cognition, social stress, and autism are synthesised, and the putative physiological mediators of the microbiome–sociality connection are analyzed.

This work argues that behavioural models exist to explain and predict mitigation and adaptation behaviours, but their utility in establishing meaningful change is limited due to their being too reductive, individualistic, linear, deliberative and blind to environmental impact.

Understanding of its mechanisms and how it can be both beneficial and detrimental to cells and organisms, depending on the karyotype and external cues, sheds light on its roles in human pathogenesis and on genome evolution.