Our researchers design and conduct evaluations of programmes with a behavioural and/or psychological focus, targeting issues such as poverty, unemployment, and gender inequality. You can explore the projects our research team and affiliates are working on, grouped into key themes.
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, our researchers 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, we use insights from psychology to design and test interventions that seek to increase welfare and reduce poverty. In addition, we study the relationship between poverty and psychological characteristics (e.g., self-efficacy, mindsets).
We 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 a behavioural lens, we investigate 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, we investigate whether these differences can be explained by behavioural or psychological differences.
We examine 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 what determines the choices and actions of voters and citizens.
