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Alec Brandon

Assistant Professor · Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Assistant Professor at the Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University. His research is in behavioral economics, including the persistence of nudges, racial profiling in policing and rideshare driver earnings targets.

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Online First Review of Economic Studies Online 20 Feb 2026
Do The Effects of Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments

Alec Brandon · Paul J Ferraro · John A List · Robert D Metcalfe · Michael K Price · Florian Rundhammer

This paper asks why the Home Energy Report (HER) — a widely deployed social-comparison nudge that shows households how their electricity consumption compares to their neighbors — produces behavioral …

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