Working Paper

Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing

Tesary Lin

Boston University

Feb 12, 2026

Uses a online field experiment to determine how consumers respond to different cookie consent banner designs: deliberate obstruction (hiding options behind extra clicks); reordering (placing preferred options first); and differential highlighting (using color to emphasize certain choices).

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