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- 11th Mar 2021
Increasing take up of free childcare to improve outcomes in Greater Manchester
One of the ways HMG encourages parents to put their children in early education is through the free early education entitlement for two-year-olds (also known as the two year old offer), which gives low income parents and parents of children with special educational needs up to 15 hours of free…
- Blog
- 4th Mar 2021
BIT’s biggest trial so far encourages more flexible jobs and applications
We wanted to see if we could encourage employers to advertise more jobs with flexible working options. 20 million job applications passed through this RCT - making it one of the biggest experimental social policy trials ever published.
- Blog
- 5th Feb 2021
Can ‘rules of thumb’ training for principals improve Guatemalan schools?
In 2018, we visited high schools across Guatemala with our excellent partners in the Guatemalan Ministry of Education (MINEDUC). We were trying to understand why only 32% of high-school students pass the national standardised exam in reading comprehension and only 10% pass the exam in Maths. Here's what we found.
Also available in: Español
- Blog
- 3rd Feb 2020
BIT Crime Week #1 Violence in London: what we know and how to respond
In the early hours of the first day of January 2019, a man was killed while working as a security guard at a New Year’s Eve party after he intervened to help a colleague involved in a struggle. In February, a man was murdered after refusing to give a stranger…
- Blog
- 22nd Aug 2019
The importance of replication
If you’ve ever run a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT), you know how exciting it is to find a solution that works.
- Blog
- 21st Sep 2018
Randomisation and the Avengers - a critique of Thanos' methodology
SPOILERS—Don't read this post if you haven't seen the latest Avengers film! Before Chadwick Boseman, before Chris Hemsworth - before even Robert Downey Junior, comic books and superheroes were the exclusive domain of nerds. In these dark days, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is everywhere, with millions of people now…
- Blog
- 5th Jul 2018
What do evidence and olives have in common?
People can learn in a number of ways - through direct instruction, such as early lessons from parents; through watching what other people do and learning from their actions; or through our own experiences and trial and error. Psychologists have long studied the way in which we learn from our…
- Report
- 14th Dec 2017
El uso de la ciencia de datos en políticas públicas
La variedad de técnicas que componen la ciencia de datos (nuevas herramientas para analizar datos, nuevos conjuntos de datos y formas novedosas de datos) tienen un gran potencial para ser utilizadas en políticas públicas. Sin embargo, hasta la fecha, estas herramientas han sido principalmente del dominio de los académicos y,…
Also available in: English
- Report
- 14th Dec 2017
Using Data Science in Policy
The first report from BIT's Data Science team
Also available in: Español
- Blog
- 14th Dec 2017
Data science at BIT - first year report
This morning sees the publication of BIT’s first data science report. It marks the culmination of twelve months of work by our data science team, which was inaugurated in January 2017. The team have worked across policy areas from education to health to children’s social care and road safety, and…