The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons

Hunt Allcott; Judd B. Kessler (2019). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

Under development — community extension. This is a provisional source-design assessment, not a new successful replication or a final eligibility ruling.

Extension index · Provisional eligibility log · Assessment JSON · QMD · Reproduction code

Source design and template applicability

Home-energy-report receipt is experimentally assigned. Recipient-by-billing-cycle effects and the compliance-IV robustness lane remain experimental, not observational DiD. Utility and survey microdata are NDA-restricted.

No DiD estimates, uncertainty intervals or homogeneity-test decision were computed in this tranche. No point is added to the calibration plots. This is not a zero effect or a failed statistical test.

Recorded treatment-column measurement

Data unavailable.

Utility and survey microdata are NDA-restricted and absent from the code-only deposit.

These are the existing data-measured counts, not counts inferred from design labels. A binary instrument, group indicator or interaction component need not be the treatment of interest; the source-design assessment above takes precedence for template applicability.

Replication status

This tranche: unsupported design; source code/documentation inspected, no estimator run.

Supplied library: no_did_analysis_data; verification: no scalar DiD target; preparation: needs_restricted_data. These are the library’s labels, not new verification claims. Missing data and unsupported designs are separate issues.

Evidence and provenance

The following files in the supplied library were inspected. Their SHA-256 digests are recorded in the downloadable assessment JSON. Source archives and microdata are not redistributed.

  • AEJ-Applied/Allcott_Kessler_AEJ-Applied_2019_113728/R/220_allcott_kessler_replicate.R (60 lines)
  • AEJ-Applied/Allcott_Kessler_AEJ-Applied_2019_113728/verdict.md (87 lines)
  • AEJ-Applied/Allcott_Kessler_AEJ-Applied_2019_113728/aeraej-220.md (127 lines)