Katherine L. Milkman
Professor, Wharton and Writer at Freelance
Host at Choiceology with Katy Milkman
Prof. @Wharton, behavioral scientist, co-director of @BehaviorChange, #Choiceology podcast host & author of WSJ Bestseller HOW TO CHANGE (https://t.co/IuGdasw1Sm)
Articles
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Jan 23, 2025 |
pnas.org | Robert Kuan |Kristin Blagg |Benjamin Castleman |Katherine L. Milkman
Behavioral nudges prevent loan delinquencies at scale: A 13-million-person field experimentEdited by Susan Dynarski, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; received August 16, 2024; accepted December 3, 2024 by Editorial Board Member Orley C. AshenfelterSignificanceWith rising levels of student loan debt, finding strategies to help students repay their loans has become a critical policy challenge.
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Jun 26, 2024 |
nature.com | Katherine L. Milkman |Sean Ellis |Dena M. Gromet |Youngwoo Jung |Rayyan S. Mobarak |Ron Berman | +4 more
AbstractEncouraging routine COVID-19 vaccinations is likely to be a crucial policy challenge for decades to come. To avert hundreds of thousands of unnecessary hospitalizations and deaths, adoption will need to be higher than it was in the autumn of 2022 or 2023, when less than one-fifth of Americans received booster vaccines1,2. One approach to encouraging vaccination is to eliminate the friction of transportation hurdles.
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Apr 17, 2024 |
pubsonline.informs.org | Rachel Gershon |Cynthia Cryder |Katherine L. Milkman
The authors thank Y. Park, T. Lee, J. Hutchings, and the Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania for research assistance. The authors also thank U. Gneezy, G. Loewenstein, J. Kessler, and the Washington University Journal Club for feedback on the manuscript. The authors thank the UC San Diego fitness centers for partnering with them for the main study and the Washington University fitness centers for partnering with them for the pilot study.
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Jan 14, 2024 |
podcasts.apple.com | Max Fisher |David Nogales Toledo |Katherine L. Milkman |Ben Talisman |Gabriella Leverette
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