Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights

This paper presents the Commission's and the JRC's work using behavioural insights to inform policies tackling, directly or indirectly, citizens' well-being and mental health.

During the past two years, a large quantity of research has been conducted in different countries with various populations to study the behavioural factors that explain when and why...

The primary aim of pay transparency measures is to make pay systems less opaque and to reduce the gender pay gap. To investigate the behavioural implications of pay transparency measures...

Growing disparities on multiple socio-economic dimensions have contributed to a sense of unfairness and discontent in Europe. Fairness is a subjective phenomenon, but the far-reaching consequences of perceptions of unfairness warrant a closer...

This literature review unveils possible behavioural causes of violence against women and presents behavioural levers to its prevention and reduction, along with general principles for effective communication...

Implementing different interventions with the same goal simultaneously is required to induce green behaviour and, thus, tackle climate change. Combining nudges and monetary incentives is most...

This report responds to the anger and frustration felt by too many EU citizens. It asks whether a rising sense of unfairness may be fuelling it. It...

Despite being considered by many to be harmful for society, inequality has been rising in the past decades. How people experience the level of inequality may be...

The 2nd Electricity Market Study investigated electricity market functioning for consumers in the EU, Iceland and Norway. It assessed how market performance has developed since the 1st...