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- Blog
- 8th Mar 2023
Testing digital interventions for sexual reproductive health service uptake in Kenya
For International Women’s Day, we’re sharing some of the lessons we’ve learned through our work in Kenya to encourage girls to access SRH services.
- Academic publication
- 5th Dec 2022
Reducing discrimination against job seekers with and without employment gaps
Abstract Past research shows that decision-makers discriminate against applicants with career breaks. Career breaks are common due to caring responsibilities, especially for working mothers, thereby leaving job seekers with employment gaps on their résumés. In a preregistered audit field experiment in the United Kingdom (n = 9,022), we show that rewriting a…
- Blog
- 29th Nov 2022
How to deliver inclusive recruitment
Employers can unnecessarily put off or turn away appropriate candidates if their recruitment processes are not inclusive
- Person
Manuel Cañas
Manuel is an Associate Advisor currently working on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team. Before joining BIT, Manuel worked at Ipsos conducting public affairs projects. He has an MSc in Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Social Psychology from the Pontificia…
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Eva Myers
Eva Myers is joint Director of Economic Policy with Nida Broughton in our UK office. She oversees BIT’s work on energy, environment and sustainability, diversity and inclusion as well as wider work on financial, consumer and business behaviour. Eva has over 15 years of international economic and financial policy experience…
- Report
- 27th Jul 2022
Structure of pay - an evidence-based framework
The most common way to attract, retain and reward people - particularly in the private sector - is to use financial incentives including salaries, bonuses, leave or pension contributions. Financial incentives can be powerful, but they are difficult to design well and can produce a myriad of unintended consequences. On…
- Blog
- 27th Jul 2022
High prices, high pay? How to attract and retain staff when inflation is high
Given the tricky economic situation, many employers are considering how they can best structure pay and reward to attract, retain and motivate staff, while balancing affordability
- Blog
- 17th Jun 2022
Allowing fathers to be present
Fathers can be quite important. I’ve got a good one and am very grateful for it. The behavioural science evidence also backs me up. Early paternal participation has a positive impact on a child’s IQ, mental and physical health, career success, and happiness. When fathers do spend time with their…
- Report
- 24th May 2022
Strategies to improve workforce diversity in the public sector
Does your government workforce reflect the diversity—and excellence—of your community?
- Blog
- 29th Apr 2022
How can we encourage migrant domestic workers to seek help? Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog post series, we talked about the behavioural barriers that migrant domestic workers (MDWs) face when deciding whether and how to seek help, and the prototypes that we designed to address these barriers. If you had voted in the poll in our last blog post,…