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The Behaviouralist is a research consultancy with a unique blend of academic insight and applied experience.
We founded The Behaviouralist in 2014 to help solve some of the biggest problems facing society, from reducing pollution and waste to boosting productivity, growth, and wellbeing.The Behaviouralist is a research consultancy with a unique blend of academic prowess and applied experience.
After running some of UK’s earliest applied behavioural economics trials, in 2014, we founded The Behaviouralist to help solve some of the biggest problems facing society - from reducing pollution and waste to boosting productivity, growth, and wellbeing.Meet our team

Prof. Robert Hahn

Prof. Rob Metcalfe
Co-Founder & CRO

Jesper Akesson

Manuel Monti-Nussbaum
Senior Data Scientist

Jayani Chakravarti

Ian Redpath
Senior Behavioural Scientist

Iranzu Monreal
Behavioural Service Designer

Filippo Muzi-Falconi
Behavioural Scientist

Ondrej Kacha

Daniel Naranjo

Canishk Naik
Economist

Itzhak Rasooly
John is an American economist at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics.
List is noted for his innovative use of field experiments to offer new insights in various areas of economics research.
Diane is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and former Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. She is a member of the Natural Capital Committee, a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, and a researcher at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. She specialises in the economics of new technologies, markets and competition policy.
Alex is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at St. Catherine’s College. He is also the Deputy Director of the Economics of Sustainability group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and a co-founder of Refugees’ Say, an organisation that is developing new technology for refugee resettlement.
Author of “The Economics of the Financial Crisis”, he is a two-times winner of the Rybczynski Prize for best paper in business economics, awarded by the Society of Business Economists in London. He has extensive experience (seven years as Chief Economist and Head of Business Innovation Strategy at GE) and he is also a member of the Board of Advisors on Information Technology at Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
We have secured a grant from @LGAcomms and will be working with @BCbeactive and @Tbehaviouralist on a programme to boost physical activity levels among local residents. Full story: https://t.co/Hsej7KPxUg
Listen to the latest episode of The Visible Hand (with our co-founder Rob Metcalfe)!
Episode 7: Robert Metcalfe @RDMetcalfe (@USC) on Management Practices and Productivity. Joint work with Greer Gosnell and John List. #EconTwitter Listen now at https://t.co/1KKUNGfWl8
We recently conducted a survey with @LLSusa and @BU_Tweets which suggests that 17% of blood cancer patients/survivors are unlikely to take a COVID-19 vaccine. Read more here:
We are very excited to implement a field experiment on how management practices impact on ship productivity with @signol_io and @BSM_shipping https://t.co/wZWlducocx
New paper with @jesper_akesson "Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment" out today.
In a survey experiment conducted in June 2018, we tested the effect of a social norm intervention on the intent to share false articles.
Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment
(2020). Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment. Digital Journalism. Ahead of Print.
www.tandfonline.com
New @nberpubs paper on estimating the Value of Time (VOT)
Prices and wait times on @lyft app were randomized across 14 million sessions in a dozen large US markets
with Goldszmidt, List, Muir, Smith, & Wang
https://t.co/ooHWkp4wts
https://t.co/vfHlp5MUG9 ungated
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Any economists interested in joining our team, specializing in designing and implementing field experiments with public and private partners?
@Tbehaviouralist have a few positions open for talented and purpose-driven economists. If interested, plz contact @jesper_akesson
Very happy that my co-author Bob Hahn is now part of the Science Advisory Board of the @EPA @Tbehaviouralist Check out Bob's excellent research agenda here: https://t.co/PmGzV98rSt

EPA Appoints New Members to the Science Advisory Board and Subcommittees | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Appoints New Members to the Science Advisory Board and Subcommittees
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What's the No. 1 cause of interruptions in the classroom? You'd be surprised at what @MatthewAKraft & Manuel Monti-Nussbaum of @Tbehaviouralist found in their study of @pvdschools.

Why Small Classroom Interruptions are a Big Problem | FutureEd
Nearly four decades ago, school reform advocate and former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Theodore Sizer chronicled a tremendous amo...
www.future-ed.org
We’re looking for an intern to join our team! More info here:
Behavioural Science Jobs - The Behaviouralist Careers
We’re always looking for talented people with skills that complement our team! If you think this could be you, please do get in touch.
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