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Informing behavioural policies with data from everyday life

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  • LADES, LEONHARD K.
  • MARTIN, LUCIE
  • DELANEY, LIAM

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Naturalistic monitoring tools provide detailed information about people's behaviours and experiences in everyday life. Most naturalistic monitoring research has focused on measuring subjective well-being. This paper discusses how naturalistic monitoring can inform behavioural public policy-making by providing detailed information about everyday decisions and the choice architecture in which these decisions are made. We describe how the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) – a naturalistic monitoring tool popular in the subjective well-being literature – can be used to: (i) improve ecological validity of behavioural economics; (ii) provide mechanistic evidence of the everyday workings of behavioural interventions; and (iii) help us to better understand people's true preferences. We believe that DRM data on everyday life have great potential to support the design and evaluation of behavioural policies.

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  • Lades, Leonhard K. & Martin, Lucie & Delaney, Liam, 2022. "Informing behavioural policies with data from everyday life," Behavioural Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(2), pages 172-190, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bpubpo:v:6:y:2022:i:2:p:172-190_1
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