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We founded The Behaviouralist in 2014 to help solve some of the biggest problems facing society, from reducing pollution and waste to boosting productivity, growth, and wellbeing.
The Behaviouralist is a research consultancy with a unique blend of academic prowess and applied experience.
After running some of UK's earliest applied behavioural economics trials, in 2014, we founded The Behaviouralist to help solve some of the biggest problems facing society - from reducing pollution and waste to boosting productivity, growth, and wellbeing.
Bob is a prominent economist and leader in policy research in law and economics, regulation, and antitrust. He is a Visiting Professor and was formerly the Director of Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Bob previously served as a member of the U.S. Commission for Evidence-Based Policymaking.
Prof. Robert Hahn
Rob is an experimental innovator and a renowned behavioural economist. His work has improved lives and increased revenues for households, organisations, and governments. He is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University.
Prof. Rob Metcalfe
Co-Founder & CRO
Dan is a behavioural expert with extensive experience of delivering successful RCTs and field experiments to the benefit of communities.
Jesper has extensive experience running randomised control trials, particularly with a focus on behavioural change. He has worked on a range of topics, from food security to trade. Jesper holds a Master of Public Affairs from Brown University and an M.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Jesper Akesson
Manu leads research projects and data analytics for The Behaviouralist. He specialises in the design, implementation, and analysis of behavioural change interventions in areas ranging from education to public health and labour markets. Manu holds a Master of Public Affairs from Brown University.
Manuel Monti-Nussbaum
Eddy is a Senior Researcher and Economist at The Behaviouralist and a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. He completed his PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests include public economics and development economics. Eddy is also head of our data science team and conducts a large portion of our experimental and econometric evaluations.
Eddy Tam
Sam is a microeconomist and a recovering journalist. He holds a bachelor degree from the University of York, and an M.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Sam Ashworth-Hayes
Jay holds an MSc (Distinction) in Organisational and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics. She is a key researcher for The Behaviouralist, and assists Prof Robert Hahn and Professor Robert Metcalfe on a daily basis.
Jayani Chakravarti
Behavioural Scientist
Ian has a background in cognitive psychology, behavioural economics, and eye tracking. He specialises in understanding micro decision processes and has applied this in retail, social marketing, and customer experience for over 15 years. He has an MA in Psychology from Edinburgh and an MSc in Cognition and Decision Sciences from UCL.
Ian Redpath
Senior Behavioural Scientist
Iranzu is a service designer in TB with an expertise in strategic design and design research. She has worked mostly in the private sector, leading projects for a wide range of companies from retail to financial sector. Her background is also in marketing as she has experience as Product Manager in the pharma-biotech sector.
Iranzu Monreal
Behavioural Service Designer
Filippo is a Behavioural Scientist at The Behaviouralist. He holds a MSc in Psychology of Economic Life from the London School of Economics and has experience in programme evaluation, group facilitation and service design.
Filippo Muzi-Falconi
Canishk is a mathematician and behavioural economist. He holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, an MSc (Distinction) in Applicable Mathematics from the LSE and won the Haya Freedman Prize for his dissertation in behavioural decision science. Canishk assists with research and data analysis, particularly in the social housing sector. He is currently pursing a PhD in Economics at the LSE.
Canishk Naik
Itzhak is a PhD candidate in behavioural economics at the University of Oxford, where he also obtained his master's and undergraduate degrees. His research interests include behavioural game theory, policy evaluation and experimental design. As a researcher for the Behaviouralist, he helps turn reports into academic papers and review the latest advances in behavioural economics.
Itzhak Rasooly
Ondrej is a social psychologist and service designer. He specialises in social decision-making and behaviour change, particularly in the domain of sustainability. Ondrej holds a M.Phil in Psychology from the University of Cambridge.
Ondrej Kacha
Behavioural Science Intern
Prof. John List
John is an American economist at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics.
List is noted for his innovative use of field experiments to offer new insights in various areas of economics research.
Prof. Diane Coyle
Diane is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and former Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. She is a member of the Natural Capital Committee, a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, and a researcher at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. She specialises in the economics of new technologies, markets and competition policy.
Alex Teytelboym
Alex is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at St. Catherine's College. He is also the Deputy Director of the Economics of Sustainability group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and a co-founder of Refugees' Say, an organisation that is developing new technology for refugee resettlement.
Marco Annunziata
Author of "The Economics of the Financial Crisis", he is a two-times winner of the Rybczynski Prize for best paper in business economics, awarded by the Society of Business Economists in London. He has extensive experience (seven years as Chief Economist and Head of Business Innovation Strategy at GE) and he is also a member of the Board of Advisors on Information Technology at Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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simgandi@simgandi·
New paper with @jesper_akesson "Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment" out today.
In a survey experiment conducted in June 2018, we tested the effect of a social norm intervention on the intent to share false articles.
Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment
(2020). Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment. Digital Journalism. Ahead of Print.
www.tandfonline.com
Robert Metcalfe@RDMetcalfe·
New @nberpubs paper on estimating the Value of Time (VOT)
Prices and wait times on @lyft app were randomized across 14 million sessions in a dozen large US markets
with Goldszmidt, List, Muir, Smith, & Wang
https://t.co/ooHWkp4wts
https://t.co/vfHlp5MUG9 ungated
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17 Nov 1328810548503347200
Any economists interested in joining our team, specializing in designing and implementing field experiments with public and private partners?
@Tbehaviouralist have a few positions open for talented and purpose-driven economists. If interested, plz contact @jesper_akesson
14 Oct 1316459070765690881
Very happy that my co-author Bob Hahn is now part of the Science Advisory Board of the @EPA @Tbehaviouralist Check out Bob's excellent research agenda here: https://t.co/PmGzV98rSt
EPA Appoints New Members to the Science Advisory Board and Subcommittees | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Appoints New Members to the Science Advisory Board and Subcommittees
www.epa.gov
FutureEd@FutureEdGU·
7 Jul 1280516638606008322
What's the No. 1 cause of interruptions in the classroom? You'd be surprised at what @MatthewAKraft & Manuel Monti-Nussbaum of @Tbehaviouralist found in their study of @pvdschools.
Why Small Classroom Interruptions are a Big Problem | FutureEd
Nearly four decades ago, school reform advocate and former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Theodore Sizer chronicled a tremendous amo...
www.future-ed.org
The Behaviouralist@Tbehaviouralist·
10 Jun 1270833027569123336
We're looking for an intern to join our team! More info here:
Behavioural Science Jobs - The Behaviouralist Careers
We're always looking for talented people with skills that complement our team! If you think this could be you, please do get in touch.
thebehaviouralist.com
29 May 1266287679454326784
See our latest research with Which? on the effects of fake reviews!
Which?@WhichUK
We conducted a behavioural experiment with almost 10,000 members of the public to see if they would be influenced by fake reviews.
This thread explains how you could be being manipulated into buying poorer-quality products ⬇️
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
Two NBER papers on COVID beliefs and behavior
https://t.co/fDTU5xpYxn
https://t.co/C5v3bLyvgl
1) a small increase in Fox News viewership decreases social distancing (SD) behavior by 9%
2) exaggerated beliefs about COVID's threat leads to fatalism, which also reduces SD behavior
Richard H Thaler@R_Thaler·
Reuters Institute on Twitter
"Her analysis showed that a message that encourages verifying information before sharing on social media on top of an article can reduce the wil...
Research by @simgandi and TB's @jesper_akesson presented at #ICA20
Reuters Institute@risj_oxford
Her analysis showed that a message that encourages verifying information before sharing on social media on top of an article can reduce the willingness to share false news by 5 percentage points. Key findings below