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- 13th Sep 2017
Britain's census matters. Can we boost participation and save money?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) plays a vital role in British life. Without ONS statistics, government and local authorities would not be able to calculate or understand inflation, immigration, or employment reliably, nor could government design and implement effective policies to manage those issues. Statistics determine how public funds…
- Publication
- 15th Sep 2016
The Behavioural Insights Team’s Update Report: 2015-16
This report summarises the range and impact of BIT’s work over the past 12 months. In addition to the projects we have undertaken with the UK government, the report provides summaries of work conducted by our offices in Sydney, New York, and Singapore.
- Publication
- 8th Jul 2016
Decision-making in children’s social care: quantitative analysis
Every day, social work practitioners make decisions about the wellbeing of thousands of vulnerable children and families. These decisions are often complex, concerning emotive issues in conditions of uncertainty. They are often made under both time and resource pressure. This report uses raw data on social work cases to reveal…
- Blog
- 16th Oct 2015
World Statistics Day
It’s ‘World Statistics Day’ on October 20th! OK, it’s not quite as exciting as Christmas, but it does merit a moment of reflection - at least to encourage a next generation to marvel and pursue the wonder of statistics. As a young lecturer at Cambridge, my then Faculty made the…
- Blog
- 28th Sep 2015
Using a lottery to incentivise voter registration
A lottery made people register faster, saving the local authority money, but did not change the overall rates of voter registration
- Blog
- 2nd Jun 2015
"Powered to Detect Small Effect Sizes": You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Last month Aisling Ni Chonaire and I published a new Working Paper through the The Centre for Market and Public Organisation research centre. The paper explores how researchers can choose a sample size large enough to detect an effect in a randomised control trial, but small enough to make the…
- Academic publication
- 8th Apr 2015
“Powered to Detect Small Effect Sizes”: You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Randomised trials in education research are a valuable and increasingly common part of the research landscape. Choosing a sample size large enough to detect an effect but small enough to make the trial workable is a vital component.
- Academic publication
- 17th Jan 2015
In search of the limits of applying reciprocity in the field: Evidence from two large field experiments
Experiments in both the lab and the field have gone some distance to proving that people are reciprocal agents, returning one good deed with another, even when it is disproportionately costly to do so.
- Blog
- 18th Dec 2013
The best graphs in behavioural science
The Stirling Behavioural Economics Blog has published this interesting post of the best graphs in behavioural science (2010-2013), including exciting findings from a recent paper by Richard Thaler and Schlomo Benartzi. The post also features one of our graphs - the results of one of our large-scale field trials on…
- Blog
- 9th Dec 2013
Papers of the week
In the Behavioural Insights Team, we are always looking for the latest experimental finding. Academic economists, psychologists and others create a constant stream of interesting work that helps to shape what we do. This post is our inaugural attempt to regularly share some of our favourite findings each week. Please…