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- Blog
- 14th Dec 2021
Promover comportamientos de búsqueda de ayuda entre sobrevivientes de violencia en Centroamérica
Desde 2018, el BIT se ha asociado con el Banco Inter-Americano de Desarrollo (BID) para explorar cómo las percepciones conductuales pueden alentar a las mujeres de estos países a buscar ayuda.
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- Report
- 8th Dec 2021
Getting young people into politics through service learning
Young people participate in politics less than any other age group, and they arguably suffer materially as a result. Service learning, a type of civic education, is one policy that has received a substantial amount of public investment in an attempt to solve this problem. However, the evidence to date…
- Blog
- 8th Dec 2021
Getting young people into politics
Participation in service learning increases young people’s participation in politics by 12%. This is the headline finding from our new report that marks the end of a 4 year research project with the National Citizen Service Trust (NCS Trust) and UCL’s School of Public Policy. This is new and promising…
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Mayra Alejandra Cabrera
Mayra Cabrera is a Senior Advisor for BIT Latin America and the Caribbean, where she harnesses behavioral insights to implement impactful, human-centered interventions in a wide range of policy areas. With more than eight years of public service experience, she uses innovative approaches, including Edutainment, chatbots, and strategic campaigns, to…
- Press release
- 19th Nov 2021
Dangerous left turns slow by 17% in new traffic study leveraging behavioral science
All U.S. cities can prevent pedestrian deaths with practical investments that yield fast, meaningful improvements in safety
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Jonathan Vayness
Jonathan is an Associate Advisor at BIT Americas, applying behavioral insights to the social safety net. Prior to BIT, Jonathan has published research on emotion and prosocial behavior, and most recently worked at the Global Poverty Research Lab on projects related to effective philanthropy. Jonathan studied psychology and economics at…
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Ol Jonatan Beun
OL (Jonatan) is a Principal Advisor at BIT Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining BIT, he worked as a Behavioral Scientist at the World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development Unit (eMBeD), and he also served as Director for Capability Building and Innovation at the Federal Government of Argentina. From…
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Dr Inês Barreiros
Ines is a Senior Advisor in the Home Affairs and Social Cohesion team, where she works on evaluations and data analysis across a range of policy areas. Some of her recent projects at BIT involved applying behavioural insights to increase vaccine uptake, reduce antibiotics prescription, countering corruption, and promoting literacy…
- Podcast: Inside The Nudge Unit
- 4th Oct 2021
Combatting sexual harassment and violence; economic policy-making
In this latest episode of Inside The Nudge Unit BIT’s Aisling Colclough and Lis Costa look at two more major areas of work by the team around the world. First they are joined by colleagues Dr Vera Newman and Monica Wills Silva to explore BIT projects in Australia and Latin…
- Blog
- 30th Sep 2021
Improving people’s risk perception of coronavirus
What factors affect how people perceive risk? And can we design interventions that help to make risk perception more accurate?