Robert Metcalfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 357760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Metcalfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Metcalfe |
| SIGNATURE | METCALFE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1244-8094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding the response to financial and non-financial incentives in education: Field experimental evidence using high-stakes assessments
Promoting customer engagement: A new trend in utility regulation
This paper traces a new development in regulation that encourages utilities to engage more directly with their customers. We make four contributions: First, we perform a comprehensive analysis of how regulators are using customer engagement, and offer a simple model for understanding different customer engagement initiatives. Second, we review assessments of customer engagement. We find that there arenoquantitative, empirically robust assessments…
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data
The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains
Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet causal evidence regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for skilled labor in the developed world. In a field experiment measuring commercial airline captains’ productivity, we test four distinct management practices: performance monitoring, performance feedback, target setting, and prosocial incentives. These practi…
The behavioralist as tax collector: Using natural field experiments to enhance tax compliance
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness
Behavioural economics and its implications for transport
Influencing behaviour: The mindspace way
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing: Recommendations on Measures for use by National Governments
Governments around the world are now beginning to seriously consider the use of measures of subjective wellbeing (SWB) - ratings of thoughts and feelings about life - for monitoring progress and for informing and appraising public policy. The mental state account of wellbeing upon which SWB measures are based can provide useful additional information about who is doing well and badly in life when compared to that provided by the objective list an…
Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi‐Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well‐Being in the United Kingdom
Using a longitudinal household panel dataset in the UK, where a significant proportion of the interviews are conducted in September each year, we are able to show that the attacks of September 11 resulted in lower levels of subjective well-being for those interviewed after that date in 2001 compared with those interviewed before it. This quasi‐experiment provides one of the first examples of the impact of a terrorist attack in one country on well…
‘Oops…I did it again’: Repeated focusing effects in reports of happiness
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing: Recommendations on Measures for use by National Governments
Governments around the world are now beginning to seriously consider the use of measures of subjective wellbeing (SWB) - ratings of thoughts and feelings about life - for monitoring progress and for informing and appraising public policy. The mental state account of wellbeing upon which SWB measures are based can provide useful additional information about who is doing well and badly in life when compared to that provided by the objective list an…
Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi‐Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well‐Being in the United Kingdom
Using a longitudinal household panel dataset in the UK, where a significant proportion of the interviews are conducted in September each year, we are able to show that the attacks of September 11 resulted in lower levels of subjective well-being for those interviewed after that date in 2001 compared with those interviewed before it. This quasi‐experiment provides one of the first examples of the impact of a terrorist attack in one country on well…
Influencing behaviour: The mindspace way
The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains
Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet causal evidence regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for skilled labor in the developed world. In a field experiment measuring commercial airline captains’ productivity, we test four distinct management practices: performance monitoring, performance feedback, target setting, and prosocial incentives. These practi…
Promoting customer engagement: A new trend in utility regulation
This paper traces a new development in regulation that encourages utilities to engage more directly with their customers. We make four contributions: First, we perform a comprehensive analysis of how regulators are using customer engagement, and offer a simple model for understanding different customer engagement initiatives. Second, we review assessments of customer engagement. We find that there arenoquantitative, empirically robust assessments…
Behavioural economics and its implications for transport
‘Oops…I did it again’: Repeated focusing effects in reports of happiness
Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi‐Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well‐Being in the United Kingdom
Using a longitudinal household panel dataset in the UK, where a significant proportion of the interviews are conducted in September each year, we are able to show that the attacks of September 11 resulted in lower levels of subjective well-being for those interviewed after that date in 2001 compared with those interviewed before it. This quasi‐experiment provides one of the first examples of the impact of a terrorist attack in one country on well…
Behavioural economics and its implications for transport
Influencing behaviour: The mindspace way
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing: Recommendations on Measures for use by National Governments
Governments around the world are now beginning to seriously consider the use of measures of subjective wellbeing (SWB) - ratings of thoughts and feelings about life - for monitoring progress and for informing and appraising public policy. The mental state account of wellbeing upon which SWB measures are based can provide useful additional information about who is doing well and badly in life when compared to that provided by the objective list an…
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness
The behavioralist as tax collector: Using natural field experiments to enhance tax compliance
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data
The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains
Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet causal evidence regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for skilled labor in the developed world. In a field experiment measuring commercial airline captains’ productivity, we test four distinct management practices: performance monitoring, performance feedback, target setting, and prosocial incentives. These practi…
Promoting customer engagement: A new trend in utility regulation
This paper traces a new development in regulation that encourages utilities to engage more directly with their customers. We make four contributions: First, we perform a comprehensive analysis of how regulators are using customer engagement, and offer a simple model for understanding different customer engagement initiatives. Second, we review assessments of customer engagement. We find that there arenoquantitative, empirically robust assessments…
Understanding the response to financial and non-financial incentives in education: Field experimental evidence using high-stakes assessments
Economics (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Incentive (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Public economics (4 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 works)