LEADER 05066oam 22005295 450 001 9910820204403321 005 20200520144314.0 024 7 $a10.1596/978-1-4648-1120-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000000771630 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5092611 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5092611 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11451479 035 $a(OCoLC)1005298575 035 $a(The World Bank)211120 035 $a(US-djbf)211120 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000771630 100 $a20020129d2017 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBehavioral Insights for Development : $eCases from Central America /$fOscar Calvo-Gonzalez 210 1$aWashington, D.C. :$cThe World Bank,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (130 pages) 225 1 $aDirections in Development;Directions in Development - Countries and Regions;Directions in Development - Human Development 311 $a1-4648-1120-2 311 $a1-4648-1123-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aOverview / Oscar Calvo-Gonza?lez, Laura Zoratto -- A behavioral approach to water conservation: evidence from Costa Rica / Saugato Datta, Juan Jose? Miranda, Laura Zoratto, Oscar Calvo-Gonza?lez, Matthew Darling, Karina Lorenzana -- Promoting tax compliance in Guatemala using behavioral economics: evidence from two randomized trials / Stewart Kettle, Marco Antonio Herna?ndez Ore?, Simon Ruda, Michael Sanders -- Enhancing child development through changes to parental behaviors: using conditional cash transfers in Nicaragua / Karen Macours, Norbert Schady, Renos Vakis -- When winners feel like losers: evidence from an energy subsidy reform / Oscar Calvo-Gonza?lez, Barbara Cunha, Riccardo Trezzi -- Redistribution in times of fiscal pressure: using games to inform a subsidy reform in El Salvador / Germa?n Caruso, Megan Zella Rounseville, Manuel Sa?nchez Masferrer, Kinnon Scott -- Lessons learned from implementing behaviorally informed pilots / Laura Zoratto, Oscar Calvo-Gonza?lez, Oliver Balch. 330 3 $aBehavioral Insights for Development: Cases from Central America brings together a set of experiences that applied behavioral insights to different areas of public policy-Win some cases through randomized control trials, and in others using surveys or behavioral games. These experiences collectively show the promise of public policies that are informed by a better understanding of what drives individual behavior. In Costa Rica, for example, informing households of how much water they consume relative to their neighbors reduced water consumption (chapter 1). In Guatemala, altering the way government communicates with taxpayers increased revenue collection (chapter 2). In Nicaragua, an analysis of a cash transfer program found that children in households receiving benefits exhibited significantly higher cognitive development a result influenced by parental behavior changes during the program (chapter 3). In El Salvador, we explore how different biases explain the apparent puzzle of a gas subsidy reform that benefited most of the population yet proved to be widely unpopular (chapter 4). Chapter 5 also uses behavioral insights to analyze subsidy reforms in El Salvador, this time using a different methodology: a set of economic behavioral games designed to evaluate the willingness of individuals to accept subsidy reforms that would affect them directly. Finally, chapter 6 reflects on the progress made in applying behavioral insights in a development context. These cases illustrate, in practice, some of the findings of the World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior. In particular, they demonstrate the possibility of using nontraditional tools, complementary to regulation, in contexts where time and resources are limited. The World Bank has since established a Mind, Behavior, and Development (eMBeD) Unit within the Poverty and Equity Global Practice to mainstream and scale up behavioral science in public policies and programs. We hope these experiences will help to inform other practitioners about the potential of applying behavioral insights in a development context and will encourage them to consider such approaches as a complement to traditional policy measures. 410 0$aWorld Bank e-Library. 606 $aPolitical planning$zCentral America$xPsychological aspects 606 $aEconomic development$zCentral America$xPsychological aspects 607 $aCentral America$xEconomic policy$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aPolitical planning$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aEconomic development$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a320.6 700 $aCalvo-Gonzalez$b Oscar$01603805 702 $aCalvo-Gonzalez$b Oscar 702 $aZoratto$b Laura 801 0$bDJBF 801 1$bDJBF 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820204403321 996 $aBehavioral Insights for Development$93928349 997 $aUNINA