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Nudges are popular types of interventions. Recent years have seen the rise of `norm-nudges' - nudges whose mechanism of action relies on social norms, inducing or changing social expectations. Norm-nudges can be powerful interventions, but they can also fail to be effective and even backfire unless they are designed with care. I highlight important...

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Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we are conducting a longitudinal field experiment in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of working mothers, a population who is especially likely to experience severe time poverty. Participants receive...

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Students from the Harvard Kennedy School are pleased to invite you to register to the 16th Annual Black Policy Conference on April 3-4, 2020. Featured speakers at the conference will include Mayor of Montgomery Steven Reed and President of NAACP Derrick Johnson. Tickets are on an Early Bird Special until March 14th and can be purchased at ...

This interactive workshop helps people solve a common problem that arises in working relationships between people with diverse forms of knowledge: self-censorship. People do not always feel comfortable sharing their concerns and what they know. Yet when people don’t share, the major benefit of diverse interactions is lost. And we often don’t realize it because self-censorship is not observable. In this workshop participants learn techniques for reducing self-censorship in their own working relationships, and for facilitating new ones between others that minimize self-censorship as well...