Publicação
The role of salience and information on agent-s preferences: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in Portugal
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão | pt_PT |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gouveia, Ana Fontoura | |
| dc.contributor.author | Costa, Inês Gouveia Brazão Ramos | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-05T16:13:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-05T16:13:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-01-13 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2022-12-16 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We perform a randomized control trial to evaluate the role of salience and information on individuals’ preferences. Relying on a quasi-natural experiment, we ask individuals to evaluate two policies recently implemented by the Portuguese Government, both targeted at reducing fuel prices: a cash grant (more salient) and a tax reduction (less salient). We use a random treatment that provides information about the amount of money each surveyed household is saving through each policy. We do not find higher support for the more salient policy. However, we show that the treatment is highly significant in shifting individuals’ preferences towards rational preferences. This result is important for policy makers and calls for clearer and more targeted communication on policy implications | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.tid | 203363795 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/165861 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | UID/ECO/00124/2013 | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Salience | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Information | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Behavior economics | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Quasi-natural experiment | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Randomized control trial. | pt_PT |
| dc.title | The role of salience and information on agent-s preferences: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in Portugal | pt_PT |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | masterThesis | pt_PT |
| thesis.degree.name | A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Master’s degree in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics | pt_PT |