The Saudi Ministry of Health has announced its “Walk 30” campaign. The countrywide campaign under the theme “Saudi Walks!” seeks to promote public health by cultivating a culture of walking. It involves dozens of activities as well as a special walking event held on the Saudi National Day.
BEHAVIA to support G20 Summit
Fantastic news from the official G20 Engagement Group for Think Tanks: our joint policy brief with Dr. Fahad Alsharif, Senior Researcher at the King Faisal Center for Research & Islamic Studies, has been accepted.
The policy brief focusses on “how to solve global burden sharing problems?” and will form part of the G20 recommendations of the Task Force on “Migration and Young Societies”.
We are super excited, truly honored and can’t wait for the G20 Saudi Arabia Summit to begin!
Upcoming Workshop: Behavioral Insights and Nudging
Smart designs, settings and services change how we perceive options and ultimately affect our behaviors. Behavioral insights organize these effects in a systematic way and provide a wide range of nudging applications to better achieve an organization’s goals. Well-known examples at the company level are healthy workplace designs, nudges to de-bias recruitment decisions or to increase job satisfaction.
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Freelance and research collaboration
Are you currently pursuing a PhD or Master in Behavioral Economics and are you interested in applying behavioral insights in the field? Then get in touch with us: we are currently looking for behavioral freelancers and are always interested in new research collaborations.
Get in touch »BEHAVIA and ASBAR form partnership
Big day for BEHAVIA: We have teamed up with the Asbar Center for Studies, Research & Communications to cooperate on a behavioral economics project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Working hand in hand to deliver the best results for our client, we are very excited to jointly provide unique Saudi experience in public policy paired with Behavioral Economic Engineering made in Germany.
Some impressions taken during the official launch event…
Overcoming Behavioral Impediments to Honesty
For the 17th time, our affiliate Prof. Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff and his team are organizing the workshop “The Economics of Corruption”, at the University of Passau. This year’s workshop focusses on “Overcoming Behavioral Impediments to Honesty” and will be held from September 22-29, 2019.
The workshop provides graduate and PhD-students with experimental, behavioral and institutional tools for doing research on corruption and good governance. For further information and registration, please approach http://www.icgg.org.
Further reading on behavioral approaches to increase honesty and integrity:
Training weeks at BEHAVIA
Our directors Manuel and Julia just came back from a fantastic visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, giving a Masterclass in Behavioral Public Policy. This week, Manuel is catching up on “Behavioral Economics and the Seven Deadly Sins”. More to come in June, then focusing on moral decay, procrastination and behavioral labor market insights.
Behavioral Public Policy in Action
Our Managing Director, Dr. Manuel Schubert, gave a talk on Behavioral Public Policy at the Asbar World Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With a couple of interactive live-experiments, the event also premiered ClassEx in the Gulf region. Great night with great people and very inspiring discussions!
Have you ever stopped a diet?
If you like ice cream and sometimes think you should work out more often, then have a look at BEHAVIA‘s weight-loss contest and let us know what you think.
Designed for a large-scale roll out, it combines motivating social incentives, reinforcement mechanisms and small financial rewards in a fun environment.