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- 24th May 2022
Improving Workplace Diversity in the Public Sector with Behavioural Insight Strategy
Does your government workforce reflect the diversity—and excellence—of your community?
- Report
- 26th Apr 2022
Understanding the barriers and enablers for women’s progression from low-paid and low-skill work
This literature review centres on the UK, South Africa, France and Spain, and first outlines the barriers and enablers faced by low-paid and low-skill women, and subsequently, identifies a range of promising behavioural interventions.
- Report
- 4th Apr 2022
Applying Behavioural Insights to Reduce Commuting Emissions
Globally, transport emissions are rising faster than those in any other sector. In Canada alone, transportation accounted for a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, a 16% increase from 2005 levels. How people get to work contributes to this issue.
- Report
- 16th Feb 2022
Financial First Aider Pilot
People tend to ask friends or family for financial advice. Financial First Aiders (FFAs), employees who are trained to give guidance on financial matters, can give their colleagues another option to find help for money issues. This report summarises key learnings from a pilot project to test out the implementation…
- Report
- 1st Feb 2022
Use Behavioural Market Design to recalibrate the gambling market
When they work well, markets are powerful drivers of higher living standards. They give suppliers strong incentives to compete to provide the best value for money to consumers, through lower prices, higher quality, and innovation. The UK gambling sector almost doubled in 10 years from 2009-2019, and this rate of…
- Report
- 24th Jan 2022
Mass media, behaviour change & peacebuilding
Up to 100,000 people are killed each year as a result of violent conflict. But this is only one part of the human cost. Impact on families and communities can be felt decades later. Millions of individual decisions underpin these tragic impacts: people decide either to stoke hatred or to…
- Report
- 8th Dec 2021
Getting young people into politics through service learning
Young people participate in politics less than any other age group, and they arguably suffer materially as a result. Service learning, a type of civic education, is one policy that has received a substantial amount of public investment in an attempt to solve this problem. However, the evidence to date…
- Report
- 3rd Dec 2021
Smarter Signposting to pensions guidance
Many people do not seek freely available financial guidance that could help them to understand and make the most of their pensions. Tailored signposting, delivered at key moments, can help to engage people with financial guidance. Our ‘Smarter Signposting’ lab pilot explored ways that financial institutions could do this by…
- Report
- 1st Nov 2021
The Power of TV: Nudging Viewers to Decarbonise their Lifestyles
In our latest report, produced in collaboration with Sky TV, we provide new data on viewers' attitudes towards green behaviours and nudging. We go on to outline 10 recommendations for broadcasters on how they can use their content to encourage sustainability.
- 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.