No modern state can exist in the long term without effective taxation. Recent research
emerging from close collaboration of academics with tax authorities has shed new light on …

What types of honesty interventions have been tested and to what extent? We conducted a
systematic literature review of single-element intervention studies designed to curtail …

Taxpayer nudges-behavioral interventions that aim to increase tax compliance without
changing the underlying economic incentives of taxpayers-are used increasingly by …

The use of behavioural sciences in government has expanded and matured in the last
decade. Since the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has been part of this movement, we …

We examine framing effects in nudging honesty, in the spirit of the growing norm-nudge
literature, by utilizing a high-powered and pre-registered study. Across four treatments …

Honest reporting is essential for society to function well. However, people frequently lie
when asked to provide information, such as misrepresenting their income to save money on …

Nudges have become a popular tool for behaviour change; but, some interventions fail to
replicate, even when the identical, previously successful intervention is used. One cause of …

We study the impact of scarcity on cheating and in-group favoritism using a two-period lab-in-
the-field experiment with low-income coffee farmers in a small, isolated village in …

Businesses want their customers to self‐report information honestly. One increasingly
popular way to stimulate desired behavior is by using nudge interventions. But can …

We conduct three studies, employing diverse methodologies (a behavioral experiment, a
vignette experiment, and a norm elicitation experiment), to investigate when and how norm …