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Fifth International Behavioural Public Policy Conference

Conference programme.

28–30 September 2026The University of Queensland, St Lucia
Provisional programmeAll times AEST (Brisbane)

Each regular paper has 30 minutes, including questions and changeover.

Day 1

Monday 28 September 2026

September 2026

Registration & coffee

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Welcome

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Keynote 1

Michael Muthukrishna

London School of Economics

Advanced Engineering Building (Building 49), Room 200

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Coffee break

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Parallel session 1

3 concurrent sessions
Track AT03
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 273

Nudge During Turbulent Times: Insights and Future Directions

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Denise de Ridder, Malte Dewies, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri

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Track BR07
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 275

Food Systems, Waste and Sustainable Consumption

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    Fighting The Now with The Now: Reframing Narrative Interventions to Overcome Present Bias in Single-Use Plastic Consumption

    Presented by: Anhar Dana Putra

    Authors: Anhar Dana Putra, Stefan Kaufman, Bernice Plant

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    Cognitive biases shape food system decisions: Evidence from a global behavioural experiment

    Presented by: Christine Yung Hung

    Authors: Christine Yung Hung

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    Good food in the neighbourhood: Participatory Systems Mapping of Social Eating Initiatives

    Presented by: Elric Tendron

    Authors: Elric Tendron

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Track CR16
Steele Building, Room 03-262

AI, Integrity and Organisational Behaviour

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    Gender Equality and the Behavioral Dynamics of AI Governance: Insights from 200 Qualitative Interviews in a UN-Sponsored Project

    Presented by: Haili Wu

    Authors: Haili Wu, Xin Li, Jiang Zhang

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    Cognitive biases and opportunistic behaviour in public works projects: the Italian case study

    Presented by: Stefano D'Ancona

    Authors: Stefano D'Ancona

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    Designing Integrity: A Behavioural Economic Model of Academic Misconduct in the Age of AI

    Presented by: Kathleen Rodenburg

    Authors: Kathleen Rodenburg, Margaret Goralski, Geri Mason

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Lunch break

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Parallel session 2

3 concurrent sessions
Track AT02
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 273

Seeing the system: Recent advances in Behavioural Systems Thinking

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Alex Gyani

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Track BR20
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 275

Elections and Voting Behaviour

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    Capture without Confusion: Voter Experience under Ranked-Choice Voting

    Presented by: Emma Martinez Daniel

    Authors: Allyson Barkley, Emma Martinez Daniel, Joseph Sherlock

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    The Devil You Know: How Status Quo Bias Can Influence Elections

    Presented by: Vera te Velde

    Authors: Joshua Huisman, Marco Faravelli, Vera te Velde

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    Title to be confirmed

    Presented by: Santiago Ventura Coello

    Authors: Santiago Ventura, Joseph Sherlock, Jens Madsen, Lyndsay Gavin

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Track CR08
Steele Building, Room 03-262

Climate Adaptation, Communication and Resilience

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    The Se-COMB framework: Synthesizing drivers, barriers, and mechanisms of climate adaptation across individual, community, and system levels

    Presented by: Thi Lam Pham

    Authors: Lam Pham, Kien Nguyen-Trung, Stefan KAUFMAN

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    Too Hot to Handle: Individual Differences in Climate Information-Seeking and Avoidance

    Presented by: Monica Trezise

    Authors: Monica Trezise, Benjamin Newell, Omid Ghasemi

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    Retaining trust when communicating uncertainty about rare events

    Presented by: Aba Szollosi

    Authors: Aba Szollosi, Jimmy Huang, Ben Newell

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Coffee break

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Parallel session 3

3 concurrent sessions
Track AR11
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 273

Environmental Policy Reform and Market Instruments

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    Behavioural Responses to the Rollback of Environmental Policies in the European Union

    Presented by: Malte Dewies

    Authors: Malte Dewies, Yuval Feldman, Colleen Sheridan, Lucia Reisch

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    The knowledge–action gap: impediments to implementing best-practice science and economics in environmental policy.

    Presented by: Richard Reeve

    Authors: Richard Reeve

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    An Experimental Comparison of Absolute- and Intensity-based Emission Trading Schemes

    Presented by: Lana Friesen

    Authors: Lana Friesen, Ian MacKenzie, Peiyao Shen

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Track BR17
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 275

Education, Employment and Youth Behaviour

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    Mind the (Employment) Gap: The Power of Reasons in Reshaping Employers' Beliefs

    Presented by: Arianna Gatta

    Authors: Arianna Gatta, Todd Morris, Christine Ablaza

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    Financial Incentives or App-Based Support: Improving Academic Progress through a Communication Intervention

    Presented by: Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred

    Authors: Simone Haeckl, Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred, Andreas Fidjeland

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    Disrupting Social Media Habits Among Danish Adolescence: Evidence from 1.2 Million Social Media Interactions

    Presented by: Lasse Hyldig Hansen

    Authors: Lasse Hyldig Hansen, David J. Grüning, Andreas Maaløe Jespersen, Frederik Riedel, Catrine Normann

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Track CR24
Steele Building, Room 03-262

Experimental Choice, Valuation and Creativity

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    Ethical Bandits: An experimental study on the multi-armed bandit with an externality

    Presented by: Daniel Woods

    Authors: Daniel Woods, Stanton Hudja

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    Experimental Evidence on Behavioural Biases in Valuation and Choice

    Presented by: Gajendra Sahu

    Authors: Dr. Gajendra Sahu

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    Motivating Productive Creativity: The Trade-off Between Originality and Communicability

    Presented by: Ozan Isler

    Authors: Ozan Isler, Greg Kubitz

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Day 2

Tuesday 29 September 2026

September 2026
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Keynote 2

Lauren Willis

Loyola Marymount University

Advanced Engineering Building (Building 49), Room 200

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Coffee break

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Parallel session 4

3 concurrent sessions
Track AR01
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 273

Health Choices, Trust and Care Systems

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    Avoiding Decay: The Transition from a Private to Mixed Private-Public Dental Market

    Presented by: Jack McLaughlin

    Authors: Jack McLaughlin, Duncan Mortimer

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    Leveraging social cohesion to increase preventive healthcare take-up: A survey experiment.

    Presented by: Ambra Poggi

    Authors: Marina Di Giacomo, Marco Mantovani, Ambra Poggi

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    Institutional Trust and Nudge Acceptance in Behavioral Public Policy in Japan: Eye-Tracking Evidence on the Behavioral Effectiveness of Simplified Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels

    Presented by: Takuji Kinjo

    Authors: Hiromi Fujimori, Takuji Kinjo, Hibiki Osada, Tetsuya Matsuda

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Track BP04
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 275

Beyond Disclosure: Lessons from Financial Services for Responsible AI Regulation

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Lionel Page, Jason Collins, Nathalie Spencer

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Track CR10
Steele Building, Room 03-262

Energy Transitions and Policy Acceptability

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    Priming for Uncertainty: The Effects of Perceived Security of Energy Supply on Support for Controversial Technologies in the Energy Mix

    Presented by: Kristin Limbach

    Authors: Kristin Limbach, Daniel Sloot, Corinne Faure, Joachim Schleich

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    Preferences for Equity in Electric Vehicle Rebate Design: A Choice Experiment

    Presented by: Bhagya N. Gunawardena

    Authors: Lana Friesen, Bhagya N. Gunawardena, Andrea La Nauze

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    Financing the home energy transition: a discrete choice experiment on property-linked finance and its alternatives

    Presented by: Fernanda Gomes Da Mata

    Authors: Fernanda Mata, Brea Kunstler, Nick Faulkner, Liam Smith

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Lunch break

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Parallel session 5

3 concurrent sessions
Track AR03
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 273

Gambling, Fraud and Risky Consumption

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    Self-Control, Sophistication, and Problem Gambling

    Presented by: Agnieszka Tymula

    Authors: Agnieszka Tymula, Deborah Cobb Clark, Nick Mizen

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    Psychological and Behavioral Characteristics in Consumer Fraud Victimization in Japan

    Presented by: Daisuke Ueno

    Authors: Daisuke Ueno, Reiko Miyamoto

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    Act or reflect? Behavioural responses to nudged responsible gambling communications

    Presented by: Inge Merkelbach

    Authors: Inge Merkelbach, Elric Tendron

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Track BT01
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 275

Public understanding and support for climate and energy policies

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Benjamin Newell, Jaimie Lee, Omid Ghasemi, Matthew Hornsey, Samuel Pearson

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Track CR14
Steele Building, Room 03-262

Behavioural Policy Practice and Institutions

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    How BPP practitioners engage with complexity in their work: bridging rhetoric and reality.

    Presented by: Stefan Kaufman

    Authors: Stefan Kaufman, Filia Garavaldis

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    Beyond Downstream Outcomes: Diagnosing Behavioural Barriers in Policy Processes

    Presented by: Katarzyna Mikołajczak

    Authors: Katarzyna Mikołajczak, Kate Gannon

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    10 years of Australian Government’s BETA

    Presented by: Andrei Turenko

    Authors: Lachlan Gault

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Coffee break

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Parallel session 6

3 concurrent sessions
Track AR02
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 273

Public Health, Wellbeing and Social Support

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    Vaccination as Collective Action During a Pandemic: Evidence from a Population-Based Study of 4.8 Million COVID-19 Vaccinations in Denmark

    Presented by: Lasse Hyldig Hansen

    Authors: Lasse Hyldig Hansen, Michael Bang Petersen

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    Social Norms & Parental Mental Health Help-Seeking

    Presented by: Sumaiya Bhura

    Authors: Sumaiya Bhura, Erte Xiao, Hui Xu

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    THREE IMPACTS OF INFORMATIONAL SOCIAL SUPPORT: EMOTIONAL RESPONSES, THEIR CORRELATION WITH PRODUCTIVITY, AND THEIR EFFECT ON EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY

    Presented by: Diana Rocío Moreno-Hernández

    Authors: DIANA ROCÍO MORENO HERNÁNDEZ, CLARA INÉS PARDO MARTÍNEZ, MERCEDES VENTURA CAMPOS

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Track BR26
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 275

Public Institutions, Inclusion and Cooperation

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    Functional Analysis of Review Clauses Based on Nudge Theory: A Discussion of Choice Architecture

    Presented by: Shun Yamashita

    Authors: Shun Yamashita

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    Reducing Ambiguity, Increasing Disclosure: A Randomised Controlled Trial of Behaviourally-Informed Prompts to Increase Disability Disclosure in the Australian Public Sector

    Presented by: Sharon Rosenrauch

    Authors: Sharon Rosenrauch, Ash Morse, NSW Government Behavioural Insights Unit

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    Cooperation in a Period of Transition

    Presented by: Tanvir Nabi Khan

    Authors: Tanvir Nabi Khan, Thorsten Chmura, Kim Nguyen

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Track CR27
Steele Building, Room 03-262

Education, Families and Civic Participation

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    Improving Secondary School Attendance through Family Engagement: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Uruguay

    Presented by: Lucia Isabel Rosich Perez

    Authors: Paula Freiría, Lucía Rosich, Irina Sánchez, Guillermina Suárez, Lucía Villar

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    The Role of Cognitive biases in determining the Voting Behaviour of College-going Gen Zs in Bengaluru: A Quantitative Analysis

    Presented by: Arihana Saikia

    Authors: Prarthana D Shanbhag, Arihana Saikia, Anjali Astha Minj

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    Nudging the Nest: Evaluating Policy Choice Architecture Amid Rising DINK Lifestyles and Delayed Family Formation in the Urban Indian Context

    Presented by: Prathibha M V

    Authors: To be confirmed

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Paper session 7

1 session
Track CR28
Steele Building, Room 03-262

Behavioural Interventions in Taxation and Legal Advice

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    Behavioural Nudges and Income Bunching: Evidence from Administrative RCTs in Indonesia

    Presented by: Muhammad Ilham Ramzy

    Authors: Agung Satyadini, Subagio Effendi

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    Nudging clients towards sustainability and prosocial outcomes: a behavioural insights model for legal advice

    Presented by: Robert Tam

    Authors: To be confirmed

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Day 3

Wednesday 30 September 2026

September 2026
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Keynote 3

Peter Bossaerts

University of Cambridge

Advanced Engineering Building (Building 49), Room 200

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Coffee break

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Parallel session 8

3 concurrent sessions
Track AR25
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 273

Time, Attention and Persistent Choice

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    Stubborn by Design: The Behavioral Trap of Clinging to Soured Reward Sources

    Presented by: Elise Payzan-LeNestour

    Authors: Elise Payzan-LeNestour, Yunshen Yang, Bernard Balleine

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    Time-Inconsistent Preferences and Savings Policies

    Presented by: T. Scott Findley

    Authors: T. Scott Findley, Frank Caliendo

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    Choice Overload via Choice Stickiness

    Presented by: Jiaqi Yang

    Authors: Jiaqi Yang

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Track BP02
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 275

What Works, What Gets in the Way, and What Needs to Change: Co-producing Behavioural Science for Public Policy & Administration of Complex Systems

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Morgan Tear, Sharon Rosenrauch, Nicholas Faulkner, Stefan Kaufman

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Track CR23
Steele Building, Room 03-262

Fairness, Redistribution and Social Preferences

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    A Brave New World of Hiring: How Asynchronous Interviews and AI Reshape Recruitment

    Presented by: Mallory Avery

    Authors: Mallory Avery, Edwin Ip, Andreas Leibbrandt, Joseph Vecci

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    The Impacts of Soft Affirmative Action: Experimental Evidence

    Presented by: Changxia Ke

    Authors: Changxia Ke, Gregory Kubitz, Hairong Hu

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    Endogenous Reference-Dependence and Adaptive Shortfalls in Leave No Dimension Behind Policy Evaluation

    Presented by: Bijaya Krushna Mangaraj

    Authors: Bijaya Krushna Mangaraj

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Lunch break

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Parallel session 9

3 concurrent sessions
Track AT04
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 273

Consumer Behaviour in Complex Markets

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Greg Kubitz, Bethany Jones, Andy Wu

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Track BR13
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 275

Intervention Design, Nudges and Ethics

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    The Transformation-Robustness Trade-Off in BehaviouralPolicy: Comparing I-Frame and S-Frame Interventions Under Misspecification Risk

    Presented by: Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri

    Authors: Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri

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    A Checklist for Ethical Nudging: Bridging Behavioral Interventions and Research Ethics

    Presented by: Simone Marsilio

    Authors: Simone Marsilio

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    True Nudges and True Boosts (and Hybrids): Exploring both sides of Behavioural Public Policy-Making

    Presented by: Karl Hauser

    Authors: Karl Hauser, Laurent Muller

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Track CP05
Steele Building, Room 03-262

Behavioural Public Policy in India: From Evidence to Impact

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Jayesh M P (main author)

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Coffee break

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Parallel session 10

3 concurrent sessions
Track AR04
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 273

Consumer Finance, Saving and Economic Inclusion

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    Do Behavioral Interventions Help Economic Inclusion Program Recipients Make More Productive Use of their Payments? Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Ghana

    Presented by: Wen Wen Teh

    Authors: Mukta Joshi, Wen Wen Teh, Ariadna Vargas, Christabel Dadzie, Saugato Datta

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    Effects of Price Transparency in International Currency Transfers on Consumer Decision-making

    Presented by: Greg Kubitz

    Authors: Greg Kubitz, Guillem Roig, Santiago Sautua

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    Impulsive Consumption and Social Security

    Presented by: T. Scott Findley

    Authors: Scott Findley

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Track BR09
Global Change Institute (GCI), Room 275

Household Energy and Property Decisions

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    Price Salience and Motivating Energy Conservation: A Case of Air-conditioning

    Presented by: Ching Leong

    Authors: Ching Leong, An Rae Teo

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    Is Energy Efficiency Contagious? Evidence from Peer Effects in Home Retrofits

    Presented by: Kareman Yassin

    Authors: Kareman Yassin

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    How Public Sentiment, Political Discourse, and Government Intervention Shape Australian Property Investors’ Buying and Selling Confidence

    Presented by: Hassan F. Gholipour

    Authors: Hassan F. Gholipour, Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

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Track CP01
Steele Building, Room 03-262

Behavioural and experimental regulation: How does Australia compare with the rest of the world?

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Lois Shedd, Alex Gyani, Zoe Lyon, Janine Bialecki (virtual), Jason Collins

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Evening

Conference dinner

Customs House

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