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Thematic Session: Behavioural and Policy Insights for Conservation Effectiveness (Streaming) Location: B134 Session Chair: Ganga Shreedhar, London School of Economics and Political Science | |
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What motivates nature action? Experimental evidence and expert forecasts 1: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano & LSE, Italy; 2: Jönköpking International Business School (JIBS) Understanding what motivates individuals to take meaningful actions for nature is critical for designing effective conservation policies. We conduct a large-scale online real-effort experiment in which individuals allocate effort between personal income and nature action. Treatments included a monetary incentive, a behavioral boost, and a social norm nudge, both individually and in combination. We find that monetary incentives and behavioral boosts significantly increase nature action, while the social norm nudge alone has no effect. Combining all three interventions yields the strongest outcomes, with monetary incentives paired with boosts also proving effective. Expert forecasts correctly ranked interventions but systematically overestimated their impacts, especially for the norm treatment. In contrast, forecasts generated by a large language model closely matched observed behavior, suggesting that AI-powered forecasting can complement expert judgment and provide a promising tool for anticipating behavioral responses in environmental economics. | |