Libertarian Paternalism

Status quo bias in decision making

Samuelson, W., & Zeckhauser, R. (1988) · Journal of Risk and Uncertainty · doi:10.1007/bf00055564 · Cited by 5,897

Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias

Kahneman, D., Knetsch, J. L., & Thaler, R. H. (1991) · Journal of Economic Perspectives · doi:10.1257/jep.5.1.193 · Cited by 5,019

The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior

Madrian, B. C., & Shea, D. F. (2001) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.1162/003355301753265543 · Cited by 3,119

How Much Is Investor Autonomy Worth?

Benartzi, S., & Thaler, R. H. (2002) · The Journal of Finance · doi:10.1111/1540-6261.00472 · Cited by 340

Public health nudges: weighing individual liberty and population health benefits

Soled, D. R. (2020) · Journal of Medical Ethics · doi:10.1136/medethics-2020-106077 · Cited by 13

Moral Character, Liberal States, and Civic Education

McTernan, E. (2022) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198871712.013.42 · Cited by 13

A multifaceted poverty reduction program has economic and behavioral consequences

Li, W., Leng, Z., Yi, J., & Zhong, S. (2023) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2219078120 · Cited by 13

Thinking about default enrollment lowers vaccination intentions and public support in G7 countries

Banerjee, S., Loewen, P. J., Nyhan, B. J., Hunter, A., Koenig, R., Lee‐Whiting, B., Loewen, P. J., McAndrews, J., & Savani, M. M. (2024) · PNAS Nexus · doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae093 · Cited by 13

The Science of Change

Boyatzis, R. E. (2024) · doi:10.1093/9780197765142.001.0001 · Cited by 15

Public support for more ambitious climate policies: Empirical evidence from Germany

Goerg, S. J., Pondorfer, A., & Stöhr, V. (2025) · Ecological Economics · doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108538 · Cited by 15

Beneficial and Exploitative Nudges

Frey, B. S., & Gallus, J. (2016) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29562-6_2 · Cited by 13

An inclusive taxonomy of behavioral biases

Peón, D., Antelo, M., & Calvo-Silvosa, A. (2017) · European Journal of Government and Economics · doi:10.17979/ejge.2017.6.1.4322 · Cited by 13

Corporate Information Security Investment Decisions

Schatz, D., & Bashroush, R. (2018) · International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems · doi:10.4018/ijeis.2018040101 · Cited by 13

Nudging and Participation: a Contractualist Approach to Behavioural Policy

Häußermann, J. J. (2019) · Philosophy of Management · doi:10.1007/s40926-019-00117-w · Cited by 15

Is there a transnational trend of “nudging” away from the arts? How the selection device works in the European–Swedish context

Lilliedahl, J. (2021) · Arts Education Policy Review · doi:10.1080/10632913.2021.1903639 · Cited by 13

Leveraging Nudges to Improve the Academic Workplace: Challenges and Possibilities

O’Meara, K., Culpepper, D. K., Lennartz, C., & Braxton, J. M. (2022) · Higher education · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76660-3_9 · Cited by 14

Reflections on the Literature

Smith, V. K. (2007) · Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · doi:10.1093/reep/rem005 · Cited by 13

Carrots, sticks, sermons or nudges? Survey evidence of the Swedish general public's attitude towards different public policy tools

Andersson, P., & Almqvist, G. (2022) · Behavioural Public Policy · doi:10.1017/bpp.2022.31 · Cited by 13

Communicating through Defaults

Altmann, S., Falk, A., & Grunewald, A. (2022) · The Review of Economics and Statistics · doi:10.1162/rest_a_01260 · Cited by 13

A hybrid public good experiment eliciting multi-dimensional choice data

Cagno, D. T. D., Galliera, A., Güth, W., & Panaccione, L. (2016) · Journal of Economic Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.joep.2016.05.001 · Cited by 13

Scitovsky, Behavioural Economics, and Beyond

Pugno, M. (2014) · Economics · doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-24 · Cited by 15

What factors influence seniors’ desire for choice among health insurance options? Survey results on the Medicare prescription drug benefit

Rice, T., Hanoch, Y., & Cummings, J. R. (2009) · Health Economics Policy and Law · doi:10.1017/s1744133109990272 · Cited by 13

Sanfter Paternalismus, meritorische Güter, und der normative Individualismus

Kirchgäßner, G. (2014) · List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik · doi:10.1007/bf03373070 · Cited by 13

Recent Trends in Economic Methodology: A Literature Review

Mireles-Flores, L. (2018) · Research in the history of economic thought and methodology · doi:10.1108/s0743-41542018000036a008 · Cited by 14

Libertarian paternalism: taking Econs seriously

Hands, D. W. (2020) · International Review of Economics · doi:10.1007/s12232-020-00349-7 · Cited by 14

The obsolescence of politics: Rereading Günther Anders’s critique of cybernetic governance and integral power in the digital age

Nosthoff, A.-V., & Maschewski, F. (2019) · Thesis Eleven · doi:10.1177/0725513619863853 · Cited by 13

The Power of Related Articles – Improving Fake News Detection on Social Media Platforms

Gimpel, H., Heger, S., Kasper, J., & Schäfer, R. (2020) · Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) · doi:10.24251/hicss.2020.743 · Cited by 13

Identity and Off-Diagonals: How Permanent Winning Coalitions Destroy Democratic Governance

Boettke, P. J., & Thompson, H. A. (2019) · Public Choice · doi:10.1007/s11127-019-00683-7 · Cited by 13

From entitled citizens to nudged consumers? Re-examining the hallmarks of health citizenship in the light of the behavioural turn

Ewert, B. (2018) · Public Policy and Administration · doi:10.1177/0952076718774612 · Cited by 13

An in-home intervention of parent-implemented strategies to increase child vegetable intake: results from a non-randomized cluster-allocated community trial

Overcash, F. M., VICKERS, Z. M., Ritter, A., Mann, T. L., Mykerezi, E., Redden, J. P., Rendahl, A., Davey, C. S., & Reicks, M. M. (2019) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7079-4 · Cited by 15

Culture change in elite sport performance teams: Outlining an important and unique construct

Cruickshank, A., & Collins, D. J. (2013) · Sport & Exercise Psychology Review · doi:10.53841/bpssepr.2013.9.2.6 · Cited by 13

Trust and Trustworthiness

Carter, J. A. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780191982460.003.0009 · Cited by 13

The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D

Brot-Goldberg, Z., Layton, T., Vabson, B., & Wang, A. Y. (2021) · National Bureau of Economic Research · doi:10.3386/w28331 · Cited by 14

Incorporating Employee Heterogeneity into Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection

Goda, G. S., & Manchester, C. F. (2010) · National Bureau of Economic Research · doi:10.3386/w16099 · Cited by 13

自我损耗降低决策理性:心理机制与边界条件

Ma, Y., Chenjie, X. I. A. O., Che, J., Wang, H., & Aimei, L. I. (2020) · Advances in Psychological Science · doi:10.3724/sp.j.1042.2020.01911 · Cited by 12

The power of public choice in law and economics

Torgler, B. (2022) · Journal of Economic Surveys · doi:10.1111/joes.12490 · Cited by 14

Theory application in food waste behaviour programs: a systematic literature review

Kim, J., Knox, K., & Rundle-Thiele, S. R. (2022) · Australasian Journal of Environmental Management · doi:10.1080/14486563.2022.2140211 · Cited by 13

Don’t Accept All and Continue: Exploring Nudges for More Deliberate Interaction with Tracking Consent Notices

Gerber, N., Stöver, A., Peschke, J., & Zimmermann, V. (2023) · ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction · doi:10.1145/3617363 · Cited by 12

Neuroethics and the Ethical Parity Principle

DeMarco, J. P., & Ford, P. J. (2014) · Neuroethics · doi:10.1007/s12152-014-9211-6 · Cited by 12

Paternalism with hindsight: do protégés react consequentialistically to paternalism?

Kataria, M., Levati, M. V., & Uhl, M. (2014) · Social Choice and Welfare · doi:10.1007/s00355-014-0800-4 · Cited by 12

Building up eParticipatory decision-making from the local to the global scale. Study case at the European Higher Education Area

Nafría, J. M. D., Alfonso‐Cendón, J., & Alonso, L. P. (2014) · Computers in Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.09.004 · Cited by 12

Extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour Using Behavioural Economics to Reduce and Access Small WEEE Anthropogenic Stocks

Pierron, X., Williams, I. D., & Shaw, P. J. (2021) · Detritus · doi:10.31025/2611-4135/2021.14062 · Cited by 12

Choosing Competition on Behalf of Someone Else

Fornwagner, H., Pompeo, M., & Serdarevic, N. (2022) · Management Science · doi:10.1287/mnsc.2022.4413 · Cited by 12

Design propositions for nudging in healthcare: Adoption of national electronic health record systems

Steinhauser, S., & Raptis, G. (2023) · Digital Health · doi:10.1177/20552076231181208 · Cited by 16

The promise of asymmetric interventions for addressing risks to environmental systems

Campbell-Árvai, V., & Árvai, J. (2015) · Environment Systems & Decisions · doi:10.1007/s10669-015-9566-1 · Cited by 13

Choice of Retirement Funds in Chile: Are Chilean Women More Risk Averse than Men?

Kristjanpoller, W., & Olson, J. E. (2015) · Sex Roles · doi:10.1007/s11199-014-0439-8 · Cited by 14

Nudging and the Principle of Proportionality

Schweizer, M. (2016) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29562-6_7 · Cited by 13

Are children more paternalistic than their mothers when choosing snacks?

Marette, S., Issanchou, S., Monnery-Patris, S., Ginon, É., & Sutan, A. (2016) · Journal of Economic Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.joep.2016.02.006 · Cited by 12

Oil, Local Content Laws and Paternalism: Is Economic Paternalism Better Old, New or Democratic?

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2016) · Forum for Social Economics · doi:10.1080/07360932.2016.1197844 · Cited by 12

Behavioural Insights Team: ethical, professional and historical considerations

Delaney, L. D. (2018) · Behavioural Public Policy · doi:10.1017/bpp.2018.19 · Cited by 12

Behavioral Economics

Krstić, M. S., & Pavlović, N. (2020) · Advances in logistics, operations, and management science book series · doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-4601-7.ch015 · Cited by 11

Procrastination, prompts, and preferences: Evidence from daily records of self-directed learning activities

Onji, K., & Kikuchi, R. (2011) · The Journal of Socio-Economics · doi:10.1016/j.socec.2011.08.019 · Cited by 14

Libertarian Paternalism and the Dangers of Nudging Consumers

Alberto, R., & Salazar, V. M. E. (2012) · King s Law Journal · doi:10.5235/096157612800081222 · Cited by 12

绿色助推

Bonini, N., Co, N., & Mi, C. (2018) · Acta Psychologica Sinica · doi:10.3724/sp.j.1041.2018.00814 · Cited by 15

Public Bioethics

Flanigan, J. (2013) · Public Health Ethics · doi:10.1093/phe/pht022 · Cited by 12

Myopia, regrets, and risky behaviors

Pestieau, P., & Ponthière, G. (2011) · International Tax and Public Finance · doi:10.1007/s10797-011-9188-6 · Cited by 12

Behavioral economics and the design of a dual‐flush toilet

Arocha, J. S., & McCann, L. M. J. (2013) · American Water Works Association · doi:10.5942/jawwa.2013.105.0017 · Cited by 12

Implementing Smarter Lunchrooms Makeovers in New York state middle schools: an initial process evaluation

Thomas, L. N., Hill, T., Gaines, A., & Dollahite, J. (2016) · Archives of Public Health · doi:10.1186/s13690-016-0153-9 · Cited by 16

Libertarian Paternalism, Information Sharing, and Financial Decision-MakingPreprint

Carlin, B. I., Gervais, S., & Manso, G. (2010) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.1570158 · Cited by 12

Government Policy with Time Inconsistent VotersPreprint

Bisin, A., Lizzeri, A., & Yariv, L. (2012) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2120954 · Cited by 12

Behavioural Economics: Development, Condition and PerspectivesPreprint

Kanev, D., & Terziev, V. K. (2018) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3149067 · Cited by 12

Behavioral Welfare Economics

Bernheim, B. D. (2008) · National Bureau of Economic Research · doi:10.3386/w14622 · Cited by 12

The joint effect of framing and defaults on choice behavior

Giuliani, F., Cannito, L., Gigliotti, G., Rosa, A., Pietroni, D., & Palumbo, R. (2022) · Psychological Research · doi:10.1007/s00426-022-01726-3 · Cited by 14

Priming the public to construct preferences for sustainable design: A discrete choice model for green infrastructure

Hu, M., & Shealy, T. (2023) · Journal of Environmental Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102005 · Cited by 12

Toward a “constitution” for behavioral policy-making

Fabbri, M., & Faure, M. (2018) · International Review of Economics · doi:10.1007/s12232-018-0296-9 · Cited by 17

Behavioral Paternalism

Salvat, C. (2015) · Revue de philosophie économique · doi:10.3917/rpec.152.0109 · Cited by 11

Digitally Nudged Learning

Byrne, J., Ito, T., & Furuyabu, M. (2022) · International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) · doi:10.3991/ijet.v17i12.30567 · Cited by 15

Linguistic concepts are self-generating choice architectures

Enfield, N. J. (2022) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0352 · Cited by 11

Nudge+: putting citizens at the heart of behavioural public policy

Banerjee, S., & John, P. C. (2023) · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · doi:10.4337/9781035303038.00023 · Cited by 11

Innovative Business Approaches for Incenting Health Promotion in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Persisting Challenges

Patel, D. N., Nossel, C., Alexander, E., & Yach, D. (2013) · Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases · doi:10.1016/j.pcad.2013.09.004 · Cited by 12

Understanding pension communications at the organizational level: Insights from bounded rationality theory & implications for HRM

Maloney, M. A., & McCarthy, A. M. (2016) · Human Resource Management Review · doi:10.1016/j.hrmr.2016.08.001 · Cited by 11

The importance of considering optimal government policy when social norms matter for the private provision of public goods

Meunier, G., & Schumacher, I. (2019) · Journal of Public Economic Theory · doi:10.1111/jpet.12418 · Cited by 13

“The Continuum of Harm” Taxonomy of Cyberbullying Mitigation and Prevention

Ashktorab, Z. (2018) · Human-computer interaction series · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78583-7_9 · Cited by 11

‘Three is better than two’: Increasing donations with the attraction effect

Pittarello, A., Caserotti, M., & Rubaltelli, E. (2019) · British Journal of Psychology · doi:10.1111/bjop.12428 · Cited by 11

Maxims nudge equitable or efficient choices in a Trade-Off Game

Huang, L. J., Lei, W., Xu, F., Liu, H., Yu, L., Shi, F., & Wang, L. (2020) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0235443 · Cited by 12

Maps of Behavioural Economics: Evidence from the Field

Frid-Nielsen, S. S., & Jensen, M. D. (2020) · Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics · doi:10.1177/0260107920925675 · Cited by 12

Behavioral Ethics and the Incidence of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks

James, H. S., & Segovia, M. S. (2020) · Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10806-020-09837-w · Cited by 12

Toward Drug Control: Exclusion and Buyer Licensing

Leitzel, J. (2012) · Criminal Law and Philosophy · doi:10.1007/s11572-012-9155-z · Cited by 11

Nudging Humans

Frischmann, B. M. (2021) · Social Epistemology · doi:10.1080/02691728.2021.1979121 · Cited by 11

The Effect of Student Loan Debt on Spending: The Role of Repayment Format

Zhang, Y., Wilcox, R. T., & Cheema, A. (2019) · Journal of Public Policy & Marketing · doi:10.1177/0743915619847465 · Cited by 11

Towards a national default option for low‐cost superannuation

Sy, W. N. (2009) · Accounting Research Journal · doi:10.1108/10309610910975324 · Cited by 11

Remaining in Control with an Illusion of Interactivity: The Paternalistic Side of Data Journalism

Appelgren, E. (2019) · Journalism Practice · doi:10.1080/17512786.2019.1642128 · Cited by 11

Numeracy: A Review of the LiteraturePreprint

Dieckmann, N. (2008) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.1561876 · Cited by 19

Rethinking Nudge: Not One But Three ConceptsPreprint

Mongin, P., & Cozic, M. (2017) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2898960 · Cited by 11

The Limits of Nudging: Can Descriptive Social Norms be Used to Reduce Meat Consumption? It's Probably Not That EasyPreprint

Brachem, J., Krüdewagen, H., & Hagmayer, Y. (2019) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/xk58q · Cited by 11

Estimating Environmental Health Costs: General Introduction to Valuation of Human Health Risks

Markandya, A., Ortiz, R. A., & Chiabai, A. (2018) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-409548-9.10657-8 · Cited by 11

On behavioral human development policies: how behavioral public policy adds to human development

Velástegui, P. G. (2022) · Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad · doi:10.13043/dys.91.5 · Cited by 11

Giving begets giving: Positive path dependence as moral consistency

Heger, S., & Slonim, R. L. (2022) · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.044 · Cited by 10

Implicit Negativity Bias Leads to Greater Loss Aversion and Learning during Decision-Making

Molins, F., Tomás, C. M., & Serrano, M. Á. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph192417037 · Cited by 11

Ethical challenges experienced by care home staff during COVID-19 pandemic

Chan, H. Y. L., Zhao, Y., Liu, L., Chong, Y. Y., Cheng, H. Y., & Chien, W. T. (2022) · Nursing Ethics · doi:10.1177/09697330221111446 · Cited by 10

When is green nudging ethically permissible?

DesRoches, C. T., Fischer, D., Silver, J., Arthur, P., Livernois, R., Crichlow, T., Hersch, G., Nagatsu, M., & Abbott, J. K. (2022) · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101236 · Cited by 10

Trademarks in the Age of Automated Commerce: Consumer Choice and Autonomy

Sevastianova, V. N. (2023) · GRURRR. Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, Rechtsprechungs-Report/GRUR-DVD/GRUR-CD/IIC/Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht/Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht. Internationaler Teil · doi:10.1007/s40319-023-01402-y · Cited by 14

What You Measure is What You Get: The Effects of Accounting Standards Effects Studies

Groß, C., & Königsgruber, R. (2012) · Accounting in Europe · doi:10.1080/17449480.2012.720873 · Cited by 10

Risks And Benefits In Health Care: The View From Economics

Pauly, M. V. (2007) · Health Affairs · doi:10.1377/hlthaff.26.3.653 · Cited by 10

Paternalism and Tax Competition

Kotakorpi, K. (2009) · Scandinavian Journal of Economics · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.01557.x · Cited by 10

The Concept of Nature in Libertarianism

Wissenburg, M. L. J. (2019) · Ethics Policy & Environment · doi:10.1080/21550085.2019.1652313 · Cited by 10

Gouverner par les incitations. La diffusion d’une logique incitative dans le droit du travail

Leclerc, O., & Sachs, T. (2015) · Revue Française de Socio-Économie · doi:10.3917/rfse.hs1.0171 · Cited by 10

From Homo Economicus to Homo Psychologicus: the Paretian Foundations of Behavioural Paternalism

Lecouteux, G. (2016) · OEconomia · doi:10.4000/oeconomia.2324 · Cited by 19

The offer network protocol: Mathematical foundations and a roadmap for the development of a global brain

Heylighen, F. (2016) · The European Physical Journal Special Topics · doi:10.1140/epjst/e2016-60241-5 · Cited by 10

The limit to behavioral inertia and the power of default in voluntary contribution games

Liu, J., & Riyanto, Y. E. (2017) · Social Choice and Welfare · doi:10.1007/s00355-017-1036-x · Cited by 10

Qualitative Freedom and Cosmopolitan Responsibility

Dierksmeier, C. (2017) · Humanistic Management Journal · doi:10.1007/s41463-017-0029-3 · Cited by 10

Nudging Debt: On the Ethics of Behavioral Paternalism in Personal Finance

White, M. D. (2017) · Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning · doi:10.1891/1052-3073.28.2.225 · Cited by 10

Gouverner par des « coups de pouce » (nudges) : instrumentaliser nos biais cognitifs au lieu de légiférer ?

Flückiger, A. (2018) · Les Cahiers de droit · doi:10.7202/1043690ar · Cited by 10

The invention of the shopping mall

Styhre, A. (2018) · Journal of Engineering Design and Technology · doi:10.1108/jedt-08-2018-0139 · Cited by 10

Libertarian Paternalism in Theory

(2022) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/14401.003.0011

Libertarian Paternalism and Limited Government: A ReconsiderationPreprint

Maloberti, N. (2012) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2061593 · Cited by 1

Libertarian Paternalism and Laissez-faire

Lee, K. S., & Hong, H. (2009) · The Korean Journal of Economic Studies

Libertarian Paternalism in Practice

(2022) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/14401.003.0012

7. Libertarian Paternalism

(2015) · Princeton University Press eBooks · doi:10.1515/9781400866298-008 · Cited by 1