They called on us to...

• Study the relation between economic preferences and risky behaviors.
  

  Context: We assisted a French University in a research project aimed at measuring time preferences, risk preferences, and intertemporal risk preferences, and understanding their relation with risky, unhealthy and addictive behaviors (smoking, alcohol consumption, online gambling, etc.). Time, risk and intertemporal risk preferences, were measured with an economic game where participants chose between loteries that vary in outcomes, wining probability and payment date, and risky, unhealthy and addictive behaviors were measured by survey.

  Included in the mission: (1) Programming of the experiment ; (2) Administration of Experimental sessions; (3) Payment of ~300 Participants by instantaneous or delayed bank transfer (for a total of 9.5k€).

  Typical price for this type of mission: ~14k€ (payment of participants included, VAT excluded).

• Testing the effectiveness and acceptability of a public policy involving hiding prevention messages in a smartphone game.
  

  Context: We participated in a project aimed at testing the efficiency and acceptability of a new type of behavioral policy which consists in hidding preventive messages within a smartphone game. In the game, the player incarnates a hacker who helps Leo's friends finding him by diging his phone content (messages, notes, instagram, etc.). Participants were asked to install and the game and were randomly assigned either to a ''nudge version'' (some conversations between Leo and his friends highlight negative aspects associated with alcohol consumption) or to a ''placebo version'' (where those messages were replaced with neutral messages) of the game. Then they complete a survey to measure efficiency and acceptability of the procedure.

  Included in the mission: (1) Creation of the game content (conversations and preventive messages) ; (2) Creation of a survey to evaluate how playing the game impacts attitudes toward alcohol consumption and the acceptability of such type of policy ; (3) Recruitment of ~300 participants, administration of the experiment and the survey.

  Typical price for this type of mission: ~5k€ (VAT excluded, participant gratification excluded).