Is Charitable Giving a Beauty Contest?
Empowering charitable lenders to pick and choose projects to support may result in discrimination based on physical characteristics such as attractiveness, weight, and skin color.
Behavioral Economics
How Do We Solve the Last Mile?
Some of society’s stickiest problems aren’t a failure of intention, importance, or value. They’re the result of a failure to understand human behavior at the last mile—the final stage where desires and plans must turn into action.
A Lawyer, an Economist, a Marketer, and a Behavioral Scientist Go into a Bar…
No matter who you are, whether you are selling soap or shampoo, whether you are a government looking after the welfare of citizens, or an agency promoting financial well-being and better health, or an institution that is responsible for collecting taxes, you are in the business of changing people’s behavior.
If Your Psychotherapist Were A Behavioral Economist
It’s easy to feel like you’re the only one. The only one who has trouble finding a significant other, remembering to call your mother, or dealing with your teenage son or daughter when they bring home a dud.
New Year’s Resolutions Failed? Be Prepared to Leverage Other Fresh Starts
It is three months into the year 2015. Some of us who made a promise to exercise every day in 2015 may be struggling to exercise barely once a week.
Can traffic-light labels and better shelf positions help people make healthier decisions?
Over the last three decades obesity rates have doubled for adults and tripled for children. Today, over 35% of adults and 17% of children are considered obese, with the percentage of obese adults expected to rise to 50% by 2030.