We don’t have a great understanding of how long nudges last or how effective they are if repeated. An experimental tax-paying prompt aimed at organizations provides new insight into these questions.
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for May 2021.
If things return to the way they were, we will have failed.
Economist Robert Frank used to believe that any individual action a person takes to reduce their carbon footprint would have a tiny, negligible impact on the planet. He’s changed his mind.
What impact could behavioral science have when applied across dozens of developing countries with different governments, capacities, and needs?
From long reads to amusing morsels, these are the pieces that kept me thinking.
In a perfect world, we would respond to risks regardless of when the last disaster hit the country.
Even when policymakers look to past evidence, it’s no guarantee of success.
Investing wisely is notoriously tricky. Is there a one-sentence piece of advice that can steer us true?
A new study explores whether using behavioral principles to distribute a basic income can more effectively combat child poverty.
