“Energy labeling has zero effect on the price. The scheme doesn’t seem to be achieving its intended purpose” says Professor Olaf Olaussen at the NTNU Business School…
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Contrary to popular belief, it is not because employers pay women less than men for doing the same jobs…
Financial incentives for forest owners in Uganda to keep their forest intact brought the rate of tree loss cut roughly by half, with benefits calculated as 2.4 times as large as the programme costs…
While Google is nudging its employees in eating less meat to improve their health, it is also helping in reducing further the company’s carbon footprint…
Data are truly changing our world rapidly, and businesses are leading the adoption of Big Data driven decisions, while the political world seems to lack a bit behind. But there are a few notable exceptions, where policy not only gives access …
I am afraid I have no single, or simple, answer. There are only different futures, with different consequences… we might choose to be at most 9 Billion people or we might live in a world with 13 Billion people. The two worlds would look very different…
For this article, highly relevant to the topics we tackle in COBHAM, the researchers just received the prestigious Erik Kempe award by EAERE…
These are the only two options left, according to a group of researchers who reviewed over 30.000 publications related to heatwaves…
Nudges are highly cost effective, often more so than the traditional policy interventions…
An experimental, iterative, data-driven approach to policymaking is gaining ground in many places, not just in dedicated units, but throughout government.
Read more →If green behaviors are not properly rewarded by society or institutions, they may therefore implicitly be discouraged….
Read more →The main practical reasons why people do not buy electric vehicles are still charging difficulties, a poor ownership experience, policy uncertainties, and high costs…
How much of the energy we consume do we actually waste? Energy Flow Charts leave no doubt on how poorly we perform and on how to improve…
On-grid solutions are still very costly and inefficient, while off-grid options are not able to guarantee a sufficient level of service to really make an impact…
Read more →Nobel laureate Kahneman’s recognizes his conclusions on “priming” in the book “Thinking Fast and Slow” were supported by underpowered studies…
Americans overwhelmingly believe that global warming is happening, but only a few think that the changes will harm them personally…
For a researcher like me, optimizing the transfer of information through data visualization is (or should be) a continuous challenge. In the quest for innovative ways of displaying data, I stumbled on one that I found very effective. This webpage …
Since Trump won the US elections, the big question at the core of the climate arena is “in the event of the US leaving the Paris Agreement what will be the reaction of the other signatories?”, or to put in …
Read more →Need higher tax compliance rates? The value added of behavioural insights in Policy Making is that measures are often very cheap and simple to implement…
After the creation of the Qatari nudge unit in August last year, other countries in the region are also planning similar units, such as in Kuwait and Lebanon …