{"id":15686,"date":"2020-10-06T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2020-10-11T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T21:20:16","slug":"types-of-nudges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/types-of-nudges\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Nudges: College Attendance and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are some different types of nudges? How do nudges vary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many different types of nudges. Depending on the need, they can be applied in a variety of settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the types of nudges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Types of Nudges: College Attendance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A college degree has never been more essential than in today\u2019s job market, yet 30% of US high school graduates choose to forego higher education. <strong>But what if, to earn your high school diploma, you <\/strong><strong><em>had <\/em><\/strong><strong>to apply to college?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was one of the types of nudges employed by San Marcos High School in Texas in an effort to increase Latino student enrollment in Texas colleges. The strategy was this: make an application to nearby Austin Community College (ACC) a requisite for graduation, and have ACC admissions officers help guide students through the application process. (The admissions officers recognized the importance of \u201csalience\u201d (see Chapter 5): rather than preach to the students about \u201clearning for its own sake\u201d or the \u201clife of the mind,\u201d they told them that a college degree could be the difference between driving a KIA or a Mercedes-Benz.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The effort paid off: In one year, San Marcos High School graduates attending college rose by 11%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Nudges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the types of nudges described in the preceding chapters just scratch the surface of what\u2019s possible with informed choice architecture. Here are some additional types of nudges that further illustrate what\u2019s possible through the power of a nudge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Give More Tomorrow<\/em>: Akin to a \u201cSave More Tomorrow\u201d program, \u201cGive More Tomorrow\u201d invites donors to charitable organizations to increase the amount of their donation annually. The increase would be calculated and charged automatically, and donors would only have to make a telephone call or visit a website to disenroll. <strong>Human inertia\/status quo bias would favor the charities<\/strong>. This is one of the types of nudges that uses default choices.<\/li><li><em>Automatic Tax Returns<\/em>: Imagine if a pre-filled tax return was sent right to your door! Already implemented in Nordic countries like Denmark and Finland, automatic tax returns are completed by the government and sent to taxpayers for approval. <strong>Economist Austan Goolsbee estimated that automatic tax returns would save Americans 225 million hours of tax preparation and over $2 billion in fees<\/strong>. It would make auditors&#8217; lives easier, too. This is another one of the types of nudges that uses a default choice.<\/li><li>&nbsp;<em>A \u201cQuit Smoking\u201d Account<\/em>: Piloted in the Philippines, smoking-cessation accounts can be opened with as little as one dollar and commit smokers to depositing the money they otherwise would have spent on cigarettes every week. If, at the end of six months, the depositor tests positive for nicotine, the money in the account is donated to charity; if he or she manages to get through the six months without smoking, the money is returned. This is one of the types of nudges that use incentives.<\/li><li><em>Destiny Health Plan<\/em>: Available in certain US states, the Destiny Health Plan rewards enrollees with points when they participate in certain healthful activities\u2014for example, attending a fitness class\u2014or meet certain health goals, say, lowering their blood pressure. These points can be traded in for plane tickets, hotel stays, and other rewards.<\/li><li><em>Dollar-a-Day Programs<\/em>: \u201cDollar-a-Day\u201d programs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/nudge-people\/\">nudge people<\/a> toward more beneficial habits by paying them a small amount for every day they refrain from a harmful behavior. For example, officials in Greensboro, North Carolina, developed a program to curb teen pregnancy: They gave teenagers who had already had a baby a dollar for every day they weren\u2019t pregnant.<\/li><li><em>A Civility Warning<\/em>: In the age of social media and the \u201chot take,\u201d people are all too susceptible to firing off an angry tweet or text in a fit of passion. The \u201ccivility warning\u201d would recognize the sentiment of the message you aim to send and prompt you with a question: \u201cWarning: This appears to be an uncivil message. Do you really wish to send it?\u201d An even stronger iteration of this nudge would force users to wait a day before sending the uncivil message.<\/li><li><em>Procrastinator\u2019s Clock<\/em>: This watch and\/or clock runs up to fifteen minutes fast, but it speeds up and slows down at random (so users can never game it).&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are some different types of nudges? 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