Spreading the Wealth: The Preference to Distribute Donations
Donors face a tradeoff between helping broadly and helping deeply.
Donors face a tradeoff between helping broadly and helping deeply.
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?
A new meta-analysis reveals when and where one of behavioral science’s most successful nudges works best (or not at all).
Work requirements for anti-poverty programs don’t encourage work. Instead, their principal effect is stripping people of the benefits they rely on to survive.
In the mid-1990s, public officials in Vienna found something surprising when they studied who was using their public parks.
In the mid-19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis knew hand-washing could save lives. But he didn’t know a strong social network could thwart good evidence.