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- 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.
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Dr Antonio Silva
Antonio is the Head of Integration and Social Cohesion. Since joining BIT in 2013, Antonio has worked on a range of policy areas, including education, loneliness and crime. He designed one of the world's first robust evaluations of counter-radicalisation programmes and is currently leading the design of large scale interventions…
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Dr Alex Gyani
Alex is the Director of the Behavioural Insights Team's Australian office. He has been based in Sydney since 2014. Previously Alex oversaw the team’s research and evaluation work across Singapore, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and ran the office in Aotearoa New Zealand from 2018-2021. Since joining the team in…
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Mónica Wills Silva
Mónica is the Director of International Programmes for BIT EMEA. Since joining the team in 2015, she has worked with a broad range of partners including charities and international organisation (the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, CIFF), the UK government (Department For International Development, the Foreign and…
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Dr Karen Tindall
Karen is a Principal Advisor based in our Sydney office, focusing on domestic violence, community resilience, health, and charitable giving. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University, in the field of public sector crisis management. Karen is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute for…
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Chloe Bustin
Chloe is a Principal Advisor in the International Programmes team. Since joining BIT in 2016, she has worked on a broad range of policy areas in the UK and overseas, including gender equality, crime prevention, poverty reduction, employment, corruption and tax. She has collaborated with government partners, international organisations, such…
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Lucy Makinson
Lucy is Head of Policy for the Behavioural Insights Team & Nesta. She leads the organisations’ Rapid Insights Team, which brings together new research and expertise from both organisations to address pressing policy challenges. Lucy has a background in both policy and research, having previously worked as Policy Advisor to…
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Ed Flahavan
Ed is a director leading our teams applying behavioural science to education, justice and policing, and security and defence. His role involves managing research projects with central government departments and other partners. Since joining BIT in 2016 he has held a number of roles including working as Policy Advisory to…
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Dr Serene Koh
Serene oversees Singapore’s domestic consultancy work and capability development programme in the region. She helped to set up the Singapore office in 2016 and has led projects across various policy domains including water conservation, academic stress, and youth rehabilitation. Serene has deep expertise in training and capability building– to date,…
- Academic publication
- 2nd Aug 2017
Levelling the playing field in police recruitment: Evidence from a field experiment on test performance
How to increase diversity in the police is an unanswered question that has received significant political and media attention. One area of intervention is the recruitment process itself.