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The Effect of Thank-You Calls on Charitable Giving
By Anya Samek
This post presents results from a large-scale experiment assessing the impact on future donations to charity of thank you calls to past donors.
No regrets: Older adults reflect on their Social Security claiming decisions
This post discusses findings from a qualitative study on older adults’ ex post assessment of their decision of when to claim their Social Security retirement benefit.
Encouraging Healthy Eating Among Children: It Turns Out We Just Have to Ask.
By Anya Samek
An RCT found that verbal prompts in the school lunch-line are an effective way to improve child food choice and consumption. Schools, teachers and cafeteria workers could adopt such strategies to improve children’s food choice and health.
Poverty and Decision-Making
A new paper explores which circumstances lead to bad financial decisions.
How Americans Manage their Finances
The Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California is conducting research supported by the Society of Actuaries and the Social Security Administration on Americans’ financial decision-making. (more…)
Financial Health may be as easy as 1.2.3
By Joanne Yoong
What happens when regular people need to navigate an increasingly complex financial landscape?
401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, mortgages, pay-day loans, auto-title loans, savings accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, and (more…)
Uninformed Decision Making: How Prepared are Americans to Navigate the ACA?
In an effort to reduce the uninsured population in the U.S., the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced health insurance exchanges in October 2013. Since then, people without health insurance can go into these exchanges at open enrollment periods and directly purchase coverage, choosing from a menu of dozens (and sometimes hundreds) different plans. (more…)