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- 4th Aug 2021
Making gambling safer: Can deposit limit tools be improved with commitment devices?
This is blog 3 in our series highlighting BIT’s work to-date on how behavioural insights may be useful in reducing gambling harms through safer gambling tool innovation. Previous blogs in this series cover our field trials on improving the uptake of safer gambling tools, and how high anchors may influence…
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- 23rd Jul 2021
Reframing pension options to encourage greener choices
We conducted an online experiment to explore how different ‘nudges’ could encourage more people to take-up green pension funds.
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- 22nd Jul 2021
Dealing new data: what bank transactions can tell us about gambling behaviour
The Behavioural Insights Team has launched two new reports on what bank transaction data can tell us about gambling behaviour, with the aim of gaining new insights on tackling gambling harm. Our findings examine how gambling fits within peoples’ wider financial lives, and sheds new light on the role that…
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- 17th May 2021
A rush on the high street? How narratives will shape the economic recovery
Narratives are stories that spread through society and help us make sense of the world around us. Economic narratives may include stories about what’s going on in the economy, the role of government, and what other consumers and businesses are doing. Some economic narratives you may have heard on the…
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- 30th Apr 2021
How can we encourage institutional investors to make climate friendly decisions?
To combat climate change, US$90 trillion is needed in sustainable investments by 2030. However markets aren’t moving fast enough. The Paris Climate Agreement calls out the role of the finance industry in boosting green innovation and low carbon industries. The question remains however, as to whether shifting to more sustainable…
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- 20th Jan 2021
Making gambling safer: deposit limit tools and the anchoring effect
The Behavioural Insights Team has today launched its new report on how to improve the industry-standard safer gambling tools that are designed to help people control how much they spend. We found that people who gamble reduce their spending limits by almost half once industry-set options are removed from view.…
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- 14th Dec 2020
Automatic switching: a win for consumers and behavioural public policy
I doubt any of us would say no to a £300 windfall. Indeed, most of us would be thrilled! It could cover the Christmas shopping, pay a chunk off your credit card bill or simply boost your rainy day savings fund. The good news is that the typical UK household…
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- 27th Nov 2020
Du mal à résister à la tentation du Black Friday? Quel meilleur jour pour penser à réparer, plutôt que remplacer?
A l’approche du Black Friday, nos boîtes mail se remplissent de promotions pour des téléphones, ordinateurs, tablettes, et autres nouveautés électroniques. Pourtant, quand on sait qu’en 2019 on a produit près de 53,6 millions de tonnes de déchets électroniques dans le monde, et que plus de 80% de ces déchets…
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- 27th Nov 2020
Feeling the Black Friday impulse? Try repairing not replacing
With Black Friday on the horizon, deals on phones, computers and all sorts of electronics are popping up in our inboxes. Yet, when you know that in 2019 we produced approximately 53.6 million tons of electronic waste globally (a number which is growing year on year), with over 80% of…
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- 24th Nov 2020
Making gambling safer: improving the uptake and design of tools to help people control their gambling
In 2017, the Behavioural Insights Team was commissioned by GambleAware to explore whether behavioural science could help to reduce risky gambling. We set out on a wide range of research activities to investigate the topic, such as literature reviews, data analysis and behavioural audits of online operators.