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...

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 Vaccination is one of the most powerful and cost-effective public health measures in the modern world and remains the main tool for primary prevention of communicable diseases. Yet, despite...

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...

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...

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...