How to Motivate Students to Reduce Dormitory Electricity Use: A Field Experiment
2018/10/09
研討會日期 : 2018-10-09
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Chia-Wen Chen (陳嘉雯)
主持人 : Professor Tzu-Ting Yang
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Chen received her Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Davis in 2011. She is currently an Assistant Research Fellow at Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica. Her research fields are Industrial Organization, Regulation and Antitrust, Applied Econometrics.
演講摘要 : Organizations often use contests or relative performance measures to encourage efforts from their agents. We study different information feedback structures when contestants are competing in teams. We conduct a randomized control trial that assigns contest participants to different information treatment groups in an electricity saving contest, and test whether revealing ranking information within and/or across teams to players during a contest affects contestants' efforts. Exploiting a very rich dataset that includes real-time hourly electricity usage at the individual room level for residence halls of a major university, our results suggest that ranking information matters: on average, providing both inter- and intra-ranking information to contest participants extracted the most efforts from them. We also find heterogeneous effects across gender and user types.
