Uploaded September 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Most global aid programmes attempt, in some way, to change behaviour. Development practitioners want people to use anti-malarial bed nets, drink clean water, and send their children to school. This session includes talks from policy makers and academics with recent examples of how insights from the behavioural sciences have been used to tackle world development problems. This is followed by a discussion on the possibility of incrementally testing small changes to development projects in order to increase their impact.
Speakers include: Dan Ariely, Stefan Dercon, Marco Hernandez, Nava Ashraf, Renos Vakis, Ana Revenga, Alex Opruenenco, Nick Dyer, Simon Ruda
Most global aid programmes attempt, in some way, to change behaviour. Development practitioners want people to use anti-malarial bed nets, drink clean water, and send their children to school. This session includes talks from policy makers and academics with recent examples of how insights from the behavioural sciences have been used to tackle world development problems. This is followed by a discussion on the possibility of incrementally testing small changes to development projects in order to increase their impact.
Speakers include: Dan Ariely, Stefan Dercon, Marco Hernandez, Nava Ashraf, Renos Vakis, Ana Revenga, Alex Opruenenco, Nick Dyer, Simon Ruda
