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  • Blog
  • 28th Mar 2024

Remembering Danny Kahneman: Reflections from David Halpern

This week we had the sad news of the death of Danny, a truly monumental figure in behavioural science. He was an inspiration and massive influence on me personally, on the work of the Behavioural Insights Team, and on many of my generation.
  • Working paper
  • 18th Mar 2024

The Shrouded Economy

Executive summary Across the economy, consumers struggle to tell the difference between good and bad products. Critical information, from price to quality, is either missing, hard to access, or hard to compare. The markets are ‘shrouded’. This has obvious costs for consumers, but the effects on the economy run much…
  • Blog
  • 13th Mar 2024

Growth Vouchers: Introducing Randomised Control Trials to Government Policy

The Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE recently published the results of a randomised control trial to evaluate the impact of business Growth Vouchers. BIT was involved in the design of this trial from the very beginning and here we reflect on the importance of RCTs, why this one…
  • Blog
  • 5th Feb 2024

UK joins the war on disposable vapes 

How can we make sure that efforts to regulate vaping and e cigarettes don't inadvertently create more problems than they solve?
  • Blog
  • 17th Jan 2024

Learning from Fujitsu: The importance of procurement reform

Since the airing of the ITV drama Mr Bates v Post Office, the public outrage at the criminalisation of hundreds of innocent people has naturally focused on the Post Office’s leadership and long running political inaction.
  • Blog
  • 8th Dec 2023

Beyond lockdowns and parties: what we can learn from the systemic failures of the pandemic

The headlines have so far focused mainly on the drama and failings within No. 10, and especially on the early months of the pandemic up until the first ‘lockdown’. But there is a danger that this focus crowds out a hard-headed analysis of the wider system failures that help explain…
  • Blog
  • 5th Dec 2023

Three remarkable new findings in PISA - the worlds guide to how our kids are learning (or not)

In the world of education, the PISA results are the World Cup, Olympics and Oscars all rolled into one. For a generation they have provided the benchmark study on how well our children are learning - and how well our educational systems are performing. 
  • Blog
  • 12th Oct 2023

A behavioural lens on Keir Starmer's conference speech

It was the Leader of the Opposition’s fullest, and most personal, account of what he thinks ails Britain and how a Labour government might go about fixing it.
  • Blog
  • 6th Oct 2023

Bold moves from the PM: Unpacking the behavioural angle of Rishi Sunak's Party Conference speech

Cigarettes are the only legal consumer product that, when used correctly, will kill the majority of users. Raising the smoking age on a regular basis, as New Zealand has done, was one of our recommendations to the Khan Review on making smoking obsolete, and is supported by the public, per…
  • Blog
  • 7th Jun 2023

The quiet boom of trust inside Britain

The UK is experiencing a quiet boom in what’s called ‘social trust’: the sense that we can trust our neighbours and the people around us. Our analysis of the latest release of the World Values Survey finds that 47% of us think that most people can be trusted.