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- 14th Aug 2015
Encouraging charitable giving
In our Update Report, we reported a few new results in the area of charitable giving. Perhaps the most striking of these is the finding of our first “Network Nudge” experiment. In this experiment, we worked with an investment bank to encourage their staff to donate to charity. Instead of…
- Blog
- 11th Aug 2015
Behavioural Insights: The Next Generation
Junior academics and practitioners in the field of behavioural science are incredibly fortunate to benefit from the pioneering work of academics such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Cass Sunstein, Richard Thaler, Carol Dweck, Max Bazerman and Iris Bohnet, to name but a few. The work that these eminent figures have…
- Academic publication
- 3rd Aug 2015
Star Power: Two field experiments investigating the effect of celebrity endorsement on charitable fundraising campaigns
A large literature exists that suggests that people’s decisions across many facets of their life are influenced by other people. We report the results of two field experiments in which we test the influence of a salient but socially remote individual – a celebrity – on the charitable giving decisions…
- Blog
- 31st Jul 2015
Improving outcomes for young people in Somerset
Today we are publishing our latest report which applies behavioural insights to schools in Somerset. This report is the culmination of a year of work conducted jointly with the Somerset Challenge, a collection of secondary schools in Somerset who are working together to improve outcomes for young people in the…
- Academic publication
- 8th Jul 2015
Targeting voter registration with incentives: A randomized controlled trial of a lottery in a London borough
Does an incentive—in the form of a lottery—increase voter registration, particularly among poorer members of society? In the summer of 2012, two groups of 20,000 randomly selected households from a London Borough were informed that they would be placed into a prize draw if they registered to vote by 28…
- Academic publication
- 19th Jun 2015
Non-Standard Matching in Charitable Giving – null results from two field experiments
Abstract Many charities make use of ‘matches’ on donations made by their supporters as a way of encouraging more and larger donations. The effectiveness of these matches in the field has been tested elsewhere, but it is unclear whether the current ‘standard’ matching formulation is the most effective. In two…
- Blog
- 2nd Jun 2015
"Powered to Detect Small Effect Sizes": You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Last month Aisling Ni Chonaire and I published a new Working Paper through the The Centre for Market and Public Organisation research centre. The paper explores how researchers can choose a sample size large enough to detect an effect in a randomised control trial, but small enough to make the…
- Academic publication
- 12th Apr 2015
Social Influences on Charitable Giving in the Workplace
Social influences have been widely recorded in charitable giving. In two field experiments, we attempt to exogenously manipulate sources of social influence in the workplace.
- Academic publication
- 8th Apr 2015
“Powered to Detect Small Effect Sizes”: You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Randomised trials in education research are a valuable and increasingly common part of the research landscape. Choosing a sample size large enough to detect an effect but small enough to make the trial workable is a vital component.
- Academic publication
- 13th Feb 2015
Curbing Adult Student Attrition: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Roughly 20% of adults in the OECD lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the UK, many colleges offer fully government subsidized adult education programs to improve these skills.