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- 2nd Sep 2021
New for employers: updated evidence on what works to reduce the Gender Pay Gap
We’ve recently wrapped-up a large-scale ‘Gender and Behavioural Insights’ (GABI) research programme, a collaboration with the Government Equalities Office to investigate what works to improve gender equality in the workplace. Our work has yielded some interesting insights. For instance, we found that unconscious bias training does not change attitudes in…
- Blog
- 25th Aug 2021
“The Complaints Department”: A dozen years of debate on when and how to nudge
Last week Professor Richard Thaler and Professor Cass Sunstein published Nudge: The Final Edition. As many of our readers will know, BIT was built on the ideas developed and popularised in the original edition, and we have been hugely grateful for the inspiration, energy and guidance Richard and Cass have…
- Blog
- 19th Aug 2021
The good kind of null? Training village doctors in Bangladesh to fight COVID-19
“Village doctors” are the primary healthcare providers for many Bangladeshis, but their qualifications and expertise can vary considerably. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the role of village doctors has expanded to pandemic preventers and the advice they provide has become a matter of public health. With that in…
- Report
- 18th Aug 2021
Active Online Choices: Designing to Empower Users
We worked with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) to explore and demonstrate how to create ‘active' choices; choices where individual users are empowered to better control how they use digital products and services, and have a clear in the understanding of the consequences.
- Blog
- 3rd Aug 2021
We need your help! We’re looking for the most innovative behaviorally-informed policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Do you work in the public sector in Latin America and the Caribbean? Have you applied behavioral science to policy problems? If so, we want to hear from you! We are looking for the most innovative public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. We want to hear from institutions…
- Blog
- 5th Aug 2021
Using behavioural insights to help households correctly segregate their waste
Uncertainty is an issue— if we don’t know what the right option is, we are often inclined to take the path which incurs the lowest effort. This status quo bias is bad news for recycling, because it means people may be sending recyclable refuse to landfill. Uncertainty is also legitimate.…
- Blog
- 30th Jul 2021
What’s in a leaderboard?
In the last week, you may have found that a leaderboard has become an unexpected addition to your morning routine. Every morning you now wake up, pick up your phone and check where your country sits on the Olympic medal table. Although they look simple, leaderboards can have a big…
- Blog
- 29th Jul 2021
Greening pensions: A behavioural perspective
In our latest report, we outline seven ideas, grounded in behavioural science, to achieve a greener pensions system and help to avert the climate crisis. Downstream, we aim to support individual pension-holders to take up greener pension options, and upstream, we address the pensions market itself to improve the availability…
- Report
- 29th Jul 2021
Greening Pensions: A Behavioural Perspective
In this report, we contribute to the emerging conversation on green pensions by highlighting the benefits of using a behavioural perspective. We outline seven ideas, grounded in behavioural science, to achieve a greener pensions system and help to avert the climate crisis.
- Blog
- 14th Jul 2021
"What would happen if your website was attacked?"
It's hard for businesses — particularly SMEs — to know when and how to patch their software. In collaboration with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), we ran two trials to help tackle this problem.…