It’s Time to Rethink What Counts as a Voter Turnout Strategy
Making people’s lives better makes them more likely to vote. Is it time to move beyond traditional turnout strategies?
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Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge
New research indicates that consumers are catching on and may be annoyed by certain nudges, potentially limiting the nudges’ effectiveness.
Do College Admissions by Lottery
It is the fate of thousands of teenagers applying to dozens of selective institutions that they will not get what they deserve.
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Hiring Isn’t Rocket Science: Why the Most Boring Strategy Is Best
To fix the hiring process, we have to replace hubris with heuristics.
Spreading the Wealth: The Preference to Distribute Donations
Donors face a tradeoff between helping broadly and helping deeply.
Broadening the Nature of Behavioral Design
How might our sense about what we should solve, or even what qualifies as a problem worth solving, be biased by how we think about what we can solve?