This page highlights research evaluations with a behavioural and/or psychological focus. The research projects below include studies at various stages of the research process. They cover a wide-range of topics relevant to the themes of the group and showcase a number of Oxford University researchers.
To read working papers of completed research, please visit the Working Papers section of the website.
Part of CSAE’s research programme on Firms, Farms and Labour, researchers at the MBRG evaluate interventions designed using behavioural insights which seek to lower labour market frictions and to improve the practices of firms and enterprises.
As part of the CSAE's Welfare and Behaviour research programme, insights from psychology are used by MBRG researchers to design and test interventions that seek to increase welfare and reduce poverty. Researchers also seek to understant the relationship between poverty and psychological characteristics (e.g. self-efficacy, mindsets).
Researchers at the MBRG combine insights from behavioural science, psychology, psychiatry, and economics to develop interventions that address poor health - both physical (HIV, diarrhoea) and mental (depression, anxiety disorders).
Through their behavioural lense, researchers at the MBRG investiagte how interventions which address psychological constraints can be used to affect the take up of credit, savings, and insurance products.
Many programmes and policies affect women differently to men. At the MBRG, researchers investigate whether these differences can be explained by behavioural or psychological differences.
MBRG researchers investigate how educational performance of students can be enhanced through behavioural interventions which target attitudes towards learning and capabilities - from the perspective of parents and children or adolescents.
As part of the CSAE's Politics and Institutions research stream, we study governance and politics from the behavioural perspective, analysing the behaviour of voters and citizens.
