30.09.2025 | Incher | Publikationen

Behavioural intervention with respect to individual climate friendly behaviour - a promising approach?

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In their new working paper Adam Hardaker, Igor Asanov, František Bartoš and Stephan Bruns show that behavioural interventions targeting citizens are, on average, unlikely to yield significant benefits for the climate.

The authors re-analyzed the 144 standardized mean‐difference estimates (Cohen’s d) extracted by Nisa et al. from 91 studies of interventions that aimed to increase pro-environmental behavior. The study has been published as an Institute for Replicationworking paper.

Adam Hardaker, Igor Asanov, František Bartoš and Stephan Bruns (2025) : No
evidence for effectiveness of behavioral interventions to mitigate climate change after adjusting for publication bias, I4R Discussion Paper Series, No. 263, Institute for Replication (I4R), s.l.

Link: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/326982/1/I4R-DP263.pdf

Taken together, these results indicate that previously reported promising benefits of behavioral interventions (...) on households and individuals are likely to be artefacts of publication bias! (p. 5)