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- 18th Mar 2024
L'entretien prénatal précoce, une étape clé du parcours de grossesse encore trop peu exploitée
Cette consultation est obligatoire pour toutes les femmes enceintes depuis mai 2020 et prise en charge à 100% par l’assurance maladie.
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- 13th Mar 2024
Growth Vouchers: Introducing Randomised Control Trials to Government Policy
The Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE recently published the results of a randomised control trial to evaluate the impact of business Growth Vouchers. BIT was involved in the design of this trial from the very beginning and here we reflect on the importance of RCTs, why this one…
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- 12th Mar 2024
Improving government communications with behavioral insights
Governments across the U.S. are responsive to residents' needs every day. But what happens when a state can be proactive, and focus on an initiative to support people long term?
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- 5th Mar 2024
I Know It Like The Back of My Hand: How overconfident are we really?
How well do any of us actually know the back of our own hands? And by implication, what does this tell us about other things we think we know?
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- 29th Feb 2024
Should we ban mobile phones in schools?
Policy moves need to be informed by HOW phones distract young people as well as the messy reality of trying to implement blanket bans in the classroom.
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- 12th Feb 2024
BIT’s Roadmap for AI & BI
At BIT we’re thinking hard about how we should be using artificial intelligence (AI). We’re not worried that it’ll do us out of business, not yet at least. Rather, we’re excited about the potential to dramatically increase the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of applied behavioural science.
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- 8th Feb 2024
Homicides and mental health: understanding systemic patterns
Getting and understanding the right data to help prevent homicides in the future
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- 6th Feb 2024
Social media and youth violence: Acknowledging the complexity
In a guest blog for the Ending Youth Violence Lab authors of Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective Luke Billingham and Keir Irwin-Rogers discuss the need for a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the link between social media and youth violence. This blog, published on Safer Internet Day, sets…
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- 6th Feb 2024
“Together for a safer internet”: how and why we should put children and young people at the heart of designing future internet policy
Today is Safer Internet Day, raising awareness globally of a safer and better internet for all, especially for children and young people. Lis Costa, Managing Director of BIT UK, considers how we might make this year’s theme of “Together for a safer internet” a meaningful reality.
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- 5th Feb 2024
UK joins the war on disposable vapes
How can we make sure that efforts to regulate vaping and e cigarettes don't inadvertently create more problems than they solve?