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- 14th Dec 2012
New BIT trial results: helping people back into work
The Behavioural Insights Team has been working with Job Centre Plus in Loughton, Essex, to help get people back into work. We ran a six month randomised controlled trial to test the impact of three changes we made to the existing Job Centre Plus system. The trial tested the difference…
- Blog
- 7th Apr 2013
BIT back-to-work trial covered by BBC PM.
We’ve been busy over the last few weeks and, if you listen to Radio 4’s BBC PM show, you may have heard about the ways in which we’re helping jobseekers across Essex to get back into work. If you missed it, or just want to listen again, you can do…
- Blog
- 7th Aug 2013
Growth Vouchers
We’ve been working with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on the £30 million business support programme which was announced at Budget. The announcement in the budget stipulated that the programme would be run as a randomised controlled trial (RCT), the first time that we know of where…
- Blog
- 8th Oct 2013
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
Tim Harford, author of the Financial Times’ Undercover Economist series, has recently written a new book: The Undercover Economist Strikes Back Tim’s previous books have tended to cover microeconomics, i.e. the behaviour of individuals or firms. But Tim’s new book looks at macroeconomics, which is the study of entire economies…
- Blog
- 17th Dec 2013
Paper of the week: using Post-It notes to increase survey responses
The paper we would like to highlight this week is a great example of how research can be transferred into practice. Garner (2005) tested the impact of attaching a Post-it note with a hand-written request to survey materials. The study found that the note roughly doubled response rates (76%, compared…
- Publication
- 4th Feb 2014
Growth vouchers
The Growth Vouchers programme is a pioneering government research project, and the largest Randomised Controlled Trial of its type, that aims to make it easier for small businesses to access expert advice to help them grow and test which types of business advice are most effective. The Behavioural Insights Team…
- Blog
- 19th Nov 2014
BIT at the World Economic Forum
Our CEO, David Halpern, spent last week at the World Economic Forum. The World Economic Forum now has a Council focused on behaviour, chaired by David and Eldar Shafir (a Princeton professor and co-author of the recent book Scarcity). David sent back this blog post:Going to Dubai last week was…
- Academic publication
- 1st Dec 2014
I’ve booked you a place. Good luck: a field experiment applying behavioural science to improve attendance at high-impact recruitment events
Finding a job, especially in a recovering economy, is challenging and success is reliant upon effective job-search activity.
- Blog
- 10th Nov 2015
Automatic Enrolment and Pensions: a behavioural success story
Last week, the National Audit Office (the Government’s financial watchdog) published a report on a major government programme. If its subject had been a programme with a big overspend or a lengthy delay, it might have got a lot of attention. But this report got next to no pick up in the…
- Blog
- 2nd Dec 2015
Can psychology help reduce the gap between the rich and poor kids?
Robert Putnam, Harvard Professor and author of Bowling Alone and several other important works, came in to BIT last week to discuss his new book - Our Kids. His latest work reflects on the growing gulf between the lives and expectancies of the rich and poor youth in today’s America.…