Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights

Context Immigration, with its benefits and challenges, has been an important and often controversial topic in European politics for decades. The outbreak of the war in Ukraine has brought the new...

This behavioural experiment with farmers assessed the effect of two policy features of the new green architecture of the EU common agricultural policy on the adoption of environmentally friendly practices: (1)...

Context In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become more widely used to aid human decision making in areas of great societal importance, such...

Providing food information via QR codes is not an adequate substitute to printing them on labels

Context Gender disparities in the workplace remain a persistent issue, with women underrepresented in top leadership positions and systematically applying for lower-paying jobs than men. Equal Employment Opportunity...

Context The EU gender pay gap (GPG) in 2020 was still 13%, with substantial heterogeneity between EU countries, with the GPG ranging from 0.7% in Luxembourg to 22.3%...

The European Commission's Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights has just published a report on farmers’ adoption of green practices (PDF). EU farmers participated in an online behavioural...

Context For governments, collecting taxes is essential for financing publicly provided goods and services. Despite this, some people tend to dodge taxes. Citizens who do...

Context For governments, collecting tax is essential for financing publicly provided goods and services. Despite this, some people tend to evade taxes. Therefore, people's tax...

Context Consumers' reluctance to consider switching providers is a problem in certain markets for financial products. For example, once people have signed a mortgage, they rarely re-check...