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  • Blog
  • 24th Jan 2013

Guest blog post from Richard Thaler

Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge and Professor of Behavioural Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has written an article for us about midata. midata is a programme which gives consumers the right to request their transaction information from firms in a portable machine readable…
  • Academic publication
  • 21st May 2013

Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving

Many organisations, including corporations and governments, wish to encourage charitable giving, and offer incentives for their employees, customers and citizens to do so. However, these incentives may not be efficient.
  • Report
  • 24th May 2013

Applying Behavioural Insights to Charitable Giving

Research from the Behavioural Insights Team, or Nudge Unit, shows how charity donations can be increased by using behavioural sciences.
  • Report
  • 14th Jun 2013

Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials

Test, Learn, Adapt is a paper which the Behavioural Insights Team is publishing in collaboration with Ben Goldacre and David Torgerson.
  • Academic publication
  • 6th Aug 2013

Collection of Delinquent Fines: An Adaptive Randomized Trial to Assess the Effectiveness of Alternative Text Messages

This paper reports the results of a large randomized controlled trial, led by the UK Cabinet Office's Behavioural Insights Team, which was designed to test the effectiveness of mobile phone text messaging as an alternative method of inducing people to pay their outstanding fines.
  • Blog
  • 25th Sep 2013

Pensions policy shows the power of defaults

The past year has seen one of the biggest changes to pension schemes in recent times. Starting with the largest employers, workers are now being automatically enrolled in a scheme when they join a company. In other words, now people have to make a decision to leave their employer’s scheme,…
  • Article

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  • Timeline

In kind

BIT publishes Applying Behavioural Insights to Charitable Giving
  • Academic publication
  • 16th Oct 2013

Aspiration & Inspiration – A pilot study of mentoring in schools

We report the results of a pilot study to test the impact of a short talk on pupils' stated intentions to attend university.
  • Timeline

Words they are a changing

‘Selfie’, ‘FOMO’ and ‘twerk’ are added to the Oxford English Dictionary