Can We Nudge Parents to Read to Their Kids?
In an increasingly busy world, many parents have a hard time regularly engaging with their kids.
Education
Nudgespotting: Back to School
We’ve all witnessed it: it’s the end of the semester and the professor’s office is overflowing with nervous students. They’re asking for extra credit, extra assignments, or just a little extra sympathy.
The Bias Against Creativity
As Asimov declared in his famous 1959 essay on creativity and idea generation, “The world in general disapproves of creativity.”
Teachers Like You Like You: How Finding Common Ground Could Help Close the Achievement Gap
We like people like ourselves. Scientists call it the homophily principle, which states that like birds, people tend to flock with others who look and think and act like themselves.
Affirming Their Way to the Top: How A Small Intervention Could Help Close the Social Class Achievement Gap
Almost a fifth of all undergraduate students in America are the first in their families to go to college.
The Rejected Student Who Didn’t Complain
Consider the following two types of Ivy League admissions programs designed to grant special access to students: Affirmative action and legacy admissions.