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Blog 8th May 2024

Vamos para a escola!

O Laboratório de Insights/Ciências Comportamentais do Ceibal e a BIT tiveram um impacto no absenteísmo escolar dos alunos. Uma intervenção comportamental multicomponente reduziu as faltas na escola primária em uma média de 6%, equivalente a 1,7 dias por ano letivo. No total, nossa intervenção resultou em 16.920 dias adicionais de…

Blog 11th Apr 2024

Could summer jobs stop youth violence?

In many American cities, Summer Youth Employment Programs offer young people from disadvantaged backgrounds short-term paid employment during the long summer break from school. Some of these programmes have been in existence for decades and operate at a huge scale. Given the evidence from the US on violent youth offending,…

Blog 2nd Apr 2024

Meta’s Community Forum on AI

Our ongoing partnership with Meta has yielded strong evidence that deliberative processes are promising mechanisms for platform governance. Last October, building on earlier deliberative processes and our focus on AI, BIT designed and delivered a third Community Forum (CF) sponsored by Meta and working with Stanford University’s Deliberative Democracy Lab. 

Blog 28th Mar 2024

Remembering Danny Kahneman: Reflections from David Halpern

This week we had the sad news of the death of Danny, a truly monumental figure in behavioural science. He was an inspiration and massive influence on me personally, on the work of the Behavioural Insights Team, and on many of my generation.

Blog 28th Mar 2024

Broadcasting anti-corruption education to millions

In 1969, Simplemente María, a soap opera about an industrious single mother, led to a spike in literacy class enrollment in Peru. Edutainment experiments have also helped promote healthy sexual development, improve financial decision making, and prevent intimate partner violence. 

Design and development by Soapbox.