Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Social workers are more likely to take action on a case if they receive the referral from another professional
The source of the information we are receiving greatly influences our future actions on them. Social workers, when receiving a referral of a potentially vulnerable child from a family member, school, or the police, ...
Increasing the cases sent to social workers only decreases their productivity
Busyness definitely influences the decision-making of social worker practitioners. When they are busy at the time the referral is received, it can decrease the probability of the referral proceeding to further action. Increasing the ...
Refferals sent at the beginning of the weak were more likely to proceed to further action
The effect of decision fatigue means that a lot of decisions made in a row can affect patterns of further decisions. BIT investigated whether receiving a referral on Monday rather than at the end ...
Motivating teachers by saying thank you for their hard work
Teachers tend to be motivated in the first few years of their career, however, this attitude usually changes over time.
BIT designed a trial in order to test ways that retain teachers´ motivation ...
Highlighting the mission of being a teacher increased the click-rates on the vacancy
Most of the pedagogy graduates prefer working in schools in urban centers. Recruiting teachers – especially young ones – in rural areas can be quite difficult.
BIT designed a trial that aimed to ...
Emphasizing the benefits of university helped to motivate students in continuing their studies
Students are lacking information about university issues which influences the likelihood to attend one.
An intervention of organizing a series of talks to students was used in order to increase the likelihood of them ...
Informing students about benefits of higher studies increased their interest in applying to university
Youngsters are unmotivated to go to university since they do not have enough information about the benefits of continuing their studies.
BIT provided students and their parents information about the future financial costs ...
Shortening the amount of information increased understanding of the text by 30%
One of the reasons why communication between banks and people is not so effective is that people are overwhelmed by information which leads to poorer understanding.
BIT investigated whether shortening the report of ...
Writing bank reports in a more personal and simple way increased the comprehension
BIT investigated whether change of linguistic aspects in the report of the Central Bank of England would influence movements in financial markets.
They tested the intervention of the Relatable Summary report, in which ...
Text-messaging intervention improved parental involvement and child literacy
READY4K! is a text-messaging intervention for parents in order to eliminate systematic differences in home learning practices.
Parents were receiving text messages designed to inform and encourage them. Texts included also short simple ...