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  • Blog
  • 15th Sep 2016

The Behavioural Insights Team’s Update Report: 2015-16

Today we are publishing the latest in a series of annual Update Reports. It’s a proud moment for the team – and for the hundreds of government officials, funders, academics, clinicians, police officers, teachers and other practitioners we’ve worked with over the past year – giving us a chance to…
  • Blog
  • 6th Oct 2016

Setting smarter defaults for workplace pensions

By changing the default from opt-in to opt-out, automatic enrolment is successfully reversing the long-term decline in the number of people saving into workplace pensions in the UK. Opt-out rates have been between 8 and 14 per cent, rather than the 28 per cent the Department for Work and Pensions…
  • Blog
  • 13th Oct 2016

Reflections on the rise of evidence-based policymaking

You know how it is: you spend months waiting for the next global summit on evidence, and then when the invitations arrive they’re all scheduled at the same time. Recent weeks saw two held in London, and a few people missed them because of a rival summit in the USA!…
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  • 25th Nov 2016

Making room for expertise in democracy

There’s been a lot of talk in recent weeks about whether expertise is falling out of fashion. It was a theme picked up in a lecture on Tuesday by Beth Noveck, Enough of experts? Data, democracy and the future of expertise. Beth has spent time in both the White House,…
  • Blog
  • 12th Jan 2017

Expanding mental health provision: the PM’s speech

‘A broken leg gets treated in few hours. But a broken spirit will take months, and often won’t be treated at all’. It’s a haunting comparison often used by Richard Layard, and a theme picked up by the Prime Minister in her first major domestic policy intervention. The economic and…
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  • 23rd Jan 2017

Boosting economic growth

One area where behavioural economics has had surprisingly little impact – rather ironically - has been economic policy. The UK’s Industrial Strategy, published today, starts to change this. Adam Smith wrote extensively of the role of sentiment. Keynes highlighted how shocks and booms are driven by ‘animal spirits’. More recent…
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  • 24th Mar 2017

Terror in Westminster

The BIT London office is just off Parliament Square, so Wednesday's tragic events were truly on our doorstep. Thank you for the many concerned emails that we have received from colleagues across the world, though much more important are the condolences and thoughts for those hurt or killed, and for…
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  • 11th Jul 2017

Be the Business: boosting productivity in the UK

This morning saw the launch of ‘Be the Business’, the new movement from the UK’s Productivity Leadership Group (PLG). The breakfast event was glitzy and polished, hosted in the cool London base of Channel 4, rather than a standard conference venue. An interesting element is that it is led by…
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  • 9th Oct 2017

Congratulations to Richard Thaler, winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in economics

This morning it was announced that the 2017 Bank of Sweden Prize for Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel (also known as the Nobel prize in economics), has been awarded to BIT's long-time friend and colleague Richard Thaler. We are totally delighted for him, and for the field. Richard is the…
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  • 26th Oct 2017

Thriving at work: how to improve our mental health and productivity

Today sees the publication of the Thriving at Work report, commissioned by the Prime Minister. It was co-authored by Paul Farmer, CEO of MIND, and Lord Dennis Stevenson, businessman and entrepreneur, who has also been open about his own battles with mental health. At a celebration hosted by Dennis yesterday…