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To this impressive list we can now add the recent work by the White House’s Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST). Founded just last year, and under the leadership of wunderkind Maya Shankar, the team has just published the results of 17 studies, all but one based on random-assignment designs, to influence people’s choices or improve government efficiency. Based in large part on the work of Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago and Cass Sunstein of Harvard, SBST is teaching government to “nudge” people into making better decisions. |