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Academic publication 18th Oct 2024

A behaviourally informed chatbot increases vaccination rates in Argentina more than a one-way reminder

We designed and tested a WhatsApp chatbot to understand whether two-way interactive messaging incorporating behaviourally informed functionalities could perform better than one-way message reminders. We ran a large-scale preregistered randomized controlled trial with 249,705 participants in Argentina, measuring vaccinations using Ministry of Health records.

Also available in: Español

Academic publication 18th Oct 2024

Un chatbot con información comportamental aumenta las tasas de vacunación en Argentina más que un recordatorio unidireccional

Diseñamos y probamos un chatbot de WhatsApp para entender si la comunicación interactiva bidireccional, que incorpora funcionalidades informadas por el comportamiento, podría funcionar mejor que los recordatorios de mensajes unidireccionales. Llevamos a cabo un ensayo controlado aleatorizado y preinscrito a gran escala con 249.705 participantes en Argentina, midiendo las vacunaciones…

Also available in: English

Academic publication 11th Oct 2023

Interventions for effective waste management and segregation: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in the Changzamtog district of Thimphu, Bhutan

To address waste segregation challenges in the Changzamtog district of Thimphu, Bhutan, we conducted a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to test the effectiveness of interventions to improve the quality of household waste segregation.

Academic publication 31st Jul 2023

The effectiveness of alcohol label information for increasing knowledge and awareness: a rapid evidence review

Effective alcohol labelling is an intervention that can be added to the broader suite of policy options

Academic publication 19th May 2023

The impact of altering restaurant and menu option position on food selected from an experimental food delivery platform: a randomised controlled trial

This study tested whether repositioning foods and/or restaurant options in a simulated food delivery platform could help to reduce the energy content of users’ shopping basket.

Academic publication 20th Mar 2023

A manifesto for applying behavioural science

This manifesto for the future of applied behavioural science looks at the challenges facing the field and sets out ten proposals to address them.

Academic publication 20th Jan 2023

Misconceptions about the Practice of Behavioral Public Policy

In 2022, Nick Chater and George Loewenstein published a pre-print called ‘The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray’. I find this paper to be deeply flawed and ultimately self-defeating.

Academic publication 5th Dec 2022

Reducing discrimination against job seekers with and without employment gaps

In a preregistered audit field experiment in the UK we show that rewriting a résumé so that previously held jobs are listed with the number of years worked (instead of employment dates) increases callbacks from real employers compared to résumés without employment gaps by approximately 8%, and with employment gaps…

Academic publication 11th Oct 2022

Behavioural prompts to increase early filing of tax returns: a population-level randomised controlled trial of 11.2 million taxpayers in Indonesia

In a population-wide randomised controlled trial (n = 11,157,069), we evaluated the impact of behavioural email prompts on the proportion of annual tax returns filed at least two weeks before the deadline and overall filing rate.

Academic publication 1st Nov 2021

Persisting effects of social norm feedback letters in reducing household electricity usage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe

In a large-scale randomized field experiment in Chisinau, Moldova, with over 120,000 households, we tested the influence of a simple, one-time letter presenting electricity-usage social comparison feedback.

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