Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Using visual cues on a Mumbai Railway helped reduce deaths
The Behavioral Insights Team wanted to reduce deaths and injuries on Mumbai’s Suburban Railway.
They changed the visual design by painting salient reference lines to make pedestrians pay more attention to the train and ...
Informing doctors about their peers´ antibiotic prescriptions made them prescribe less
BIT worked with England’s Chief Medical Officer to help reduce the number of antibiotics prescribed, in order to reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
They utilized social norms by sending a letter to the doctors prescribing ...
Increasing pre-diabetes screening with the right timing of the intervention
A team from Hamad Medical Corporation and the NGO Action on Diabetes wanted to improve the number of CBG (Capillary Blood Glucose) tests for diabetes, as it is cheaper and more effective, but participants ...
Timely intervention lead to better smoking cessation results
The study aimed to examine if timing smoking cessation interventions during perioperative periods would achieve better long-term results.
The study used a control group receiving usual perioperative care, and an intervention group involving counseling, ...
Making water chlorination more visible increased the number of installed chlorine dispensers
An intervention in Kenya aimed to increase water chlorination by making it more visible to the people.
They installed automated chlorine dispensers, making the use of chlorine when collecting water more visible.
Seeing ...
Motivating hostpital staff for hand hygiene by highlighting patient safety
The study wanted to measure the effect that different messages would have on the hand hygiene of hospital staff.
They measured hand hygiene by measuring soap dispensers with three different signs. One for a ...
The size-contrast illusion influenced overeating
The rates of obesity continue to grow and the serving sizes of food might be one of the main reasons for people overeating. Thus, research was held to test this proposition.
The size-contrast ...
Ikea effect and endowment effect nudge investors against panic selling in a simulated stock crash
Stocks suffer from panic selling during crashes which further spirals the crash. Research tested how the Ikea and endowment effect could prevent this phenomenon.
Participants were divided into two groups – one made ...
Antismoking campaign based on peer pressure and social norms lowers the number of smoking adolescents
Lower education is one of the predictors of teenage smoking because they are exposed to the social norms supporting this behavior. Thus, an antismoking intervention was tested to fight this issue.
Students participating in ...
Improving financial savings for preventive health products by creating a separate fund
High mortality in Kenya is a result of poverty and the low affordability of preventive health products. A solution to this could be saving for preventive health investments which was tested in ROSCAs – ...