Stephen Kinsella has written a small piece on his blog (here) about using Nudge-inspired policies to improve the experience of first time parenting. Thought this might be of interest to the PFL team at Geary.
its a stretch to say the early childhood intervention ideas are "nudge-inspired". Direct intervention (in this case using child-benefit as an incentive or even making it mandatory) is really a different idea to the things that Thaler and colleagues are talking about which mostly revolve around policies which alter the framing of the choice in ways that make it psychological easier to make the "right" choice but dont fundamentally constrain the persons choice set. Very different from what Stephen is talking about which is a direct central changing of core economic incentives.
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its a stretch to say the early childhood intervention ideas are "nudge-inspired". Direct intervention (in this case using child-benefit as an incentive or even making it mandatory) is really a different idea to the things that Thaler and colleagues are talking about which mostly revolve around policies which alter the framing of the choice in ways that make it psychological easier to make the "right" choice but dont fundamentally constrain the persons choice set. Very different from what Stephen is talking about which is a direct central changing of core economic incentives.
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