During the last decade, governments around the world have set up behavioural science units in order to improve the conception and delivery of policies: Obama's Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, the Behavioural Insights Team in Downing Street, the EU Policy Lab, etc. These have grown in influence, at times facing some backlash from public opinion. This course introduces you to the why and how of applying behavioural sciences to public policy. We present the basic theories and experimental findings which are most commonly leveraged to design behaviourally aware policies and policy delivery. We simultaneously provide a hands-on experience through the analysis of actual behaviourally informed policy experiments and through the design of prospective ones.

Prerequisites : None
ECTS : 4