Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Mindset-shifting exercise helped to make better saving decisions
The Decision Lab was tasked by Capital One to help increase awareness about the effects of stress on financial behaviour and provide smart practical tips to manage it.
Over 1000+ respondents were tested ...
Describing crime in different words led to different solutions
A study investigated if a metaphor personifying crime affected people’s preferred policies for preventing it.
Two groups of students were presented with a report on crime rates in a fictional city. One report ...
Framing a situation as a loss may result in selecting a riskier option
Across the world, government officials and politicians choose policies differently based on differently framed questions.
An experiment was conducted on the effects of loss framing across 3 national parliaments with 154 politicians. Politicians ...
The same question is asked differently may influence the answers
People perceive a problem and what they consider to be relevant facts differently based on how certain information is presented to them. A 2015 survey by Ipsos MORI asked 2 groups of adults about ...
Reminders increased police form submissions by 40%
The New York Police Department found out that candidates felt that the length and lack of clarity in the application process had impacted their decision to withdraw their submission.
The BIT worked with the ...
Salient labels increased sales of environmental-friendly coffee
The Forest certification label guarantees that a product is sourced from responsibly managed forests.
By combining eye-tracking lab studies and in-store field trials, one study found that making the forest certification label on coffee ...
Making double-sided printing the default option saved 1,280 trees.
Unreasonable usage of paper in a workplace leads to deforestation.
A study in computer labs at Rutgers University explored making double-sided printing the default option on computers to save paper.
Over one academic year, ...
A checklist decreased the rate of deaths following surgery by 40%
Operations in hospitals are highly stressful for the doctors and the staff and often, complications arise. A checklist devised by the World Health Organization (WHO), was tested in eight cities worldwide.
The checklist ...
Motivating employees to recycle more by planning their recycling intentions decreased amount of landfill waste
A company in the Netherlands wanted to reduce its environmental impact through employees recycling more paper and plastic.
They experimented with comparing the effectiveness of offering recycling bins and planning to recycle.
The participants' ...
Adjusting container lids led increased the bottle recycling rate by 34%.
A big problem with recycling in public places is placing contaminants into the wrong containers.
Scientists from Rutgers University and Indiana University wanted to find out whether using specialized lids on waste receptacles encourages ...