Delivering Better Policies Through Behavioural Insights
New Approaches
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As behavioural insights (BI) become more widely used, countries are looking to expand the application of the methodology to new frontiers of policy making. This report tests behaviourally informed solutions to complex policy problems in the fields of competition, consumer protection, energy consumption and safety through a variety of theoretical and experimental approaches. The results give policy makers new ideas for tackling policy problems related to individual behaviour, as well as for changing the behaviour of organisations.
Executive summary
Behavioural insights (BI) provides policymakers with a new set of tools for designing and implementing effective public policies. BI complements conventional economic theory with extensive evidence on how humans depart from rational decision-making and misperceive risk. Moreover, BI can offer guidance on tailoring policies to address these deviations, by designing interventions that provide individuals with the contextual information that they are otherwise lacking to make a rational decision. An increasing number of public bodies around the globe have recognised the value of applying BI to public policy.
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