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Bank for Good: The Behavioral Insights Behind a Campaign to Align Financial Decisions with Environmental Values

by Griffin Smith, Sarah Welch, & Erin Sherman

If you don’t own coal stocks or invest in pipeline companies, you may not think of yourself as a fossil fuel funder. But U.S. banks are the biggest lenders and underwriters of fossil fuel projects globally, meaning the money in your checking and savings accounts could indeed be funding projects like deep-water drilling, pipeline expansion, […]

Policy Lab: The Child Tax Credit Meets Families’ Needs

by Kelli Garcia

October 21, 2021 The first monthly payments of the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC), enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan, lifted 3 million children out of poverty. Rather than receiving the child tax credit in a lump sum as part of their tax refund, families received the credit through monthly deposits into their […]

Can a Personalized Overview of Past Giving Make Us More Generous?

by Samantha Hammer and Eleni Fischer

Think about your charitable giving over the past year or so. Did you donate to a friend’s cause? Did you volunteer your time? Did you support a friend, family member, acquaintance, or stranger in need? Looking back on it now, does your giving reflect who you are and what you care about? These are probably […]

Introducing the Student Success Academy: Developing Behavioral Design Capacity in Higher Education

by Cassie Taylor

This fall, for the first time in over a year, many colleges and universities invited students back to campus. The opportunity to return to campus offered some semblance of a more traditional college experience, and importantly, helped address the disproportionate burden that campus closures placed on low-income, first-generation, and international students, among others. However, significant […]

Building Behavioral Science Capacity 60 Minutes at a Time: Improving Communications

by Laura Wolff

In recent decades, behavioral scientists around the world have partnered with government agencies and large institutions to enhance program impact and solve pressing societal problems. However, this body of empirical research and its practical applications have not usually been accessible to the multitude of people on the front lines of service delivery, crisis response, and […]

Changing Harmful Narratives About Poverty

by Allison Yates-Berg

When was the last time you watched a movie about poverty? Our Economic Justice team recently kicked off a new tradition of regularly watching movies about poverty to critically examine how the people who experience it are depicted, and what narratives are told. The first film we chose was The Florida Project, an award-winner about […]

Designing for Inclusion: Lessons from the Venture Studio’s Entrepreneur Recruitment

by Blessing Ogunyemi and Harrison Neuert

Application processes—whether for jobs, funding, or other opportunities—are full of potential moments for bias to occur. In launching our venture studio, Ventures for Shared Prosperity, we knew that recruiting the right people to join our cohort as entrepreneurs was going to be crucial, and we saw a responsibility to create and conduct our application process […]

Let’s Make Voting a Habit

by Tom Tasche

I picked up a lot of new habits over the past year. With the pandemic scrambling “life as usual,” everything from how I eat, sleep, and exercise to how I work, relax, and socialize looks different these days. It’s an open question to what extent this new way of life will stick once the world […]

Wait times and the inspection paradox (Part I)

by Octavio Medina

Wait times matter. They are frustrating, they make it harder to access critical services, and they waste people’s time. What’s more, wait times also disproportionately impact the low-income population, which spends significantly more time lining up in queues. For example, The Economist recently ran an article that used some American Time Use Survey data to suggest that those […]

A Nudge to Reconnect: Boosting College Persistence Rates Among Adult Students in Tennessee

by Katherine Flaschen

This is part of a series of posts about our ongoing partnership with the University of Virginia’s Nudge4 Solutions Lab and the community college systems of Tennessee and Virginia to increase degree attainment among adult students in the U.S. by designing and testing behaviorally informed solutions. Click here to read more about this partnership. In […]

Bank for Good: The Behavioral Insights Behind a Campaign to Align Financial Decisions with Environmental Values

Policy Lab: The Child Tax Credit Meets Families’ Needs

Can a Personalized Overview of Past Giving Make Us More Generous?

Introducing the Student Success Academy: Developing Behavioral Design Capacity in Higher Education

Building Behavioral Science Capacity 60 Minutes at a Time: Improving Communications

Changing Harmful Narratives About Poverty

Designing for Inclusion: Lessons from the Venture Studio’s Entrepreneur Recruitment

Let’s Make Voting a Habit

Wait times and the inspection paradox (Part I)

A Nudge to Reconnect: Boosting College Persistence Rates Among Adult Students in Tennessee

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