Browsing by Author "Rogers, Todd"
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Are Ballot Initiative Outcomes Influenced by the Campaigns of Independent Groups? A Precinct-Randomized Field Experiment
Rogers, Todd T; Middleton, Joel A. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in the US rivaling that of Presidential campaigns. Observational studies using regression approaches on observational data have ... -
Behavioral and Experimental Insights on Consumer Decisions and the Environment
Shrum, Trisha Renee (2016-05-19)In the following essays, I apply theoretical insights and experimental methods from behavioral science to address three questions at the intersection of environmental economics and consumer behavior. In Chapter 1, I use ... -
Creating birds of similar feathers: Leveraging similarity to improve teacher-student relationships and academic achievement
Gehlbach, Hunter; Brinkworth, Maureen Elizabeth; King, Aaron; Hsu, Laura; McIntyre, Joe; Rogers, Todd T (American Psychological Association, 2015)When people perceive themselves as similar to others, greater liking and closer relationships typically result. In the first randomized field experiment that leverages actual similarities to improve real-world relationships, ... -
How Long Do Treatment Effects Last? Persistence and Durability of a Descriptive Norms Intervention's Effect on Energy Conservation
Allcott, Hunt; Rogers, Todd T (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)Behavioral decision research has profoundly changed our understanding of decision-making. Recent research has begun to explore how behavioral insights can influence behavior in the world, at scale. This work often involves ... -
Motivating Voter Turnout by Invoking the Self
Rogers, Todd T (National Academy of Sciences, 2011)Three randomized experiments found that subtle linguistic cues have the power to increase voting and related behavior. The phrasing of survey items was varied to frame voting either as the enactment of a personal identity ... -
Partisan Nudge Bias: How Politics Distort Preferences for Behavioral Policy Interventions
Tannenbaum, David; Fox, Craig; Rogers, Todd (2017) -
Procedural Justice and the Risks of Consumer Voting
Kim, Tami; John, Leslie; Rogers, Todd; Norton, Michael (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2019-11)Firms are increasingly giving consumers the vote. Eight studies demonstrate that when firms empower consumers to vote, consumers infer a series of implicit promises—even in the absence of explicit promises. We identify ... -
Text Messages as Mobilization Tools: The Conditional Effect of Habitual Voting and Election Salience
Malhotra, Neil; Michelson, Melissa R.; Rogers, Todd T; Valenzuela, Ali Adam (Sage, 2011)Dale and Strauss’s (DS) noticeable reminder theory (NRT) of voter mobilization posits that mobilization efforts that are highly noticeable and salient to potential voters, even if impersonal, can be successful. In an ... -
What Does “Intending to Vote” Mean?
Rogers, Todd T (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)How accurate are responses to questions about intentions to vote in an upcoming election? Questions of this type are studied in a range of work in political science to understand the effects of other factors on political ... -
Why Bother Asking? The Limited Value of Self-Reported Vote Intention
Rogers, Todd T (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)How accurate are people when predicting whether they will vote? These self-predictions are used by political scientists to proxy for political motivation, and by public opinion researcher to predict election outcomes. Phone ...