Julia Nafziger

🚨 New Discussion Paper: Gender Norms, Stereotypical Beliefs, and Competitiveness🚨

drive.google.com/file/d/1G_PP...

Thanks - it was a pleasure to be part of Marc’s committee. And congrats to @mvoldeniel.bsky.social to his excellent thesis!

Full paper & insights here: cepr.org/publications...

The work was supported by the Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond, AUFF and Carlsberg Foundation and conducted at Aarhus BSS - Aarhus University

#ClimatePolicy #CO2Tax #EnvironmentalEconomics #Sustainability

📊 Implications: Gradual reforms can, under certain circumstances, reduce support for ambitious climate policies—our study highlights key trade-offs. Providing information can partially alleviate these negative effects.

💡 Key Finding: The gradual reform backfires. Fewer voters support a higher tax under the gradual than under the one-step reform - reasons are satisfaction with the intermediate tax and resistance to further reform steps. Positive perceptions of intermediate taxes do not spill over to higher taxes.

🔍 Hypothesis: Using an online experiment with a representative sample of 2,237 participants from the UK, we hypothesize that a gradual reform could shift norms and reduce misperceptions about the tax's effects—but it might also lead to voter satisfaction with the intermediate tax.

🚨 New Discussion Paper: Gradual Policy Reforms 🚨

In our latest research, Alexander Koch and I explore whether gradually implementing a CO₂ tax can increase voter support compared to a one-step reform.

Our article “Spillover effects of reminder nudges in complex environments” has been published in PNAS. We show that nudges have negative spillover effects, which persist even after the removal of the nudge, while the positive effects on targeted behavior diminish.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...