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Boosting and nudging: two paths toward better financial decisions

In: Financial Education and Risk Literacy

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  • Ralph Hertwig
  • Till Grüne-Yanoff

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Increasingly, policymakers are using insights from psychology and behavioral economics into how people make decisions to inform evidenc-based policy interventions. To date, much of the focus has been on nudges: interventions designed to steer people in a particular direction while preserving their freedom of choice. Yet behavioral science also provides support for a distinct kind of nonfiscal, noncoercive intervention: boosts. The objective of boosts is to foster people’s competence to make their own choices. We explore various dimensions on which boosts differ from nudges, address possible misconceptions, and provide a taxonomy of boosts. We then review and outline boosts that have been proposed and designed to foster people’s competences to make sound finanical decisions.

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  • Ralph Hertwig & Till Grüne-Yanoff, 2021. "Boosting and nudging: two paths toward better financial decisions," Chapters, in: Riccardo Viale & Umberto Filotto & Barbara Alemanni & Shabnam Mousavi (ed.), Financial Education and Risk Literacy, chapter 10, pages 150-180, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19356_10
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