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Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast - Interview with Professor Robert Slonim

Dr Uri Gneezy is the Epstein/Atkinson Endowed Chair in Behavioural Economics at the Rady School of Management in UC San Diego. 

Dr Gneezy visited the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA) in late 2017. 

During this visit, BETA took the opportunity to interview Dr Gneezy for their podcast.  

In this podcast, Dr Gneezy discusses:
- what is a behavioural economist
- how incentives affect behaviour
- Dr Gneezy’s current projects
- how behavioural economics can be applied to public policy
- how Dr Gneezy uses behavioural economics in his everyday life
- the future of behavioural economics

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast - Interview with Dr Uri Gneezy

BETA’s next podcast interview features Dr David Halpern, Chief Executive and Board Director of the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT). In this episode, Dr Halpern talks about how he got into behavioural economics, some trials he’s worked on, some work he has in the pipeline, and more. From academic, to civil servant, to social purpose venturist, Dr Halpern’s experience has been vast and diverse.

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast - Interview with Dr Halpern

In this podcast we talk to Dr Gigi Foster, Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales Business School. Dr Foster speaks about how to take account of concepts such as loyalty and greed in existing economic frameworks. She also talks about mathematically modelling the dynamics of love, and exploring whether social norms prevent women from earning more household income. 

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast - Interview with Dr Gigi Foster

BETA Podcast: What to expect from BX2018?

Earlier in the year, BETA caught up with Professor John A. List at the 2018 Behavioural Exchange Conference (BX2018) where he presented a keynote speech. Professor List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Chairman in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He’s a pioneer in using field experiments as a methodology to better understand human behaviour. 

In this episode, Professor List talks about: 
• the importance of field experiments in getting the theory or policy right 
• how we need to improve the science of doing science, in particular how we scale up successful case studies 
• how we can better invest in human capital.

Professor List also mentions some of the work he’s done in behavioural economics, including his year-long stint in the White House using behavioural economics to tackle big policy issues.

BETA Podcast - Interview with John A. List

BETA continues its BX2018 podcast series, where we recorded frank and fascinating discussions with speakers at the 2018 Behavioural Exchange Conference. 

This episode sees University of Chicago Professor Anuj K. Shah talk about his work looking at the human behaviours underpinning parts of the US justice system.

From nudges to slow down decision-making in youth crime, to reminding people to show up to their court dates – Professor Shah covers some important ground.

Professor Shah also talks about the future of behavioural economics, and how we can move beyond the common nudges used by policymakers around the world. 

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Professor Anuj K. Shah

BETA continues its BX2018 podcast series, where we recorded frank and fascinating discussions with speakers at the 2018 Behavioural Exchange Conference. In this episode Kate Glazebrook talks about her work as CEO of Applied, where ground-breaking tech is used to smash through biases in recruitment.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Kate Glazebrook

Can behavioural science really help people to save for retirement? Professor Dilip Soman explains in BETA’s latest podcast.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Dilip Soman

How do you create a behavioural insights unit like BETA? Julia Dhar explains in BETA’s latest podcast.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Julia Dhar

BETA Podcast: Daniel Effron

In this podcast we talk to Dr Mariam Chammat, neuroscientist and Executive Advisor at the French Behavioural Insights Unit within the Interministerial Directorate for Public Transformation. Listen to Mariam’s take on how we can use our understanding of the brain’s shortcomings to make the world a better place.

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Mariam Chammat

In this podcast we talk to Filippo Cavassini, a key advisor in behavioural economics at the OECD. Listen to Filippo talk about his work helping governments around the world put human behaviour at the centre of policy.

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Filippo Cavassini

How do we help people put away more rainy-day savings, pay off their credit card debts, or change their driving behaviour to reduce emissions? In this podcast we speak with Elisabeth Costa from the UK Behavioural Insights Team about using behavioural science to improve regulation in the UK.

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Elisabeth Costa

How do online platforms and data shape our decisions? US Academic Michael Luca thinks far more work needs to be done to understand the answer. In BETA’s latest podcast, Michael talks about his work at Harvard Business School, including his upcoming projects testing how behaviourally-informed waiting periods can reduce handgun deaths by 750 per year.

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Michael Luca

In this podcast we talk to Elizabeth Hardy, Senior Lead for Behavioural Insights at the Impact and Innovation Unit in the Government of Canada. Elizabeth oversees the application of behavioural science and design to public policy challenges.

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Elizabeth Hardy

How can we boost the attendance of people from ethnic minorities and poorer backgrounds at universities, graduate programs and youth programs? Michael Sanders spoke to BETA in their most recent podcast about his work applying behavioural insights to tackle these issues.


Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast: Interview with Michael Sanders

This week’s episode of the BETA podcast dissects the issue, with Professor Ben Newell, Deputy Head of the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, and Harry Greenwell, BETA’s own head of trial design and evaluation.

Ben goes through some famous replication-fails, while Harry talks about what BETA and others are doing to mitigate these risks and give confidence to findings.

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA Podcast: Replication Crisis

Disclosure is supposed to act as a warning so clients can adjust their decision or behaviour accordingly. But is that how disclosures actually work in the real world?

BETA is joined on its latest podcast by one of the world’s leading experts in this area—Professor Sunita Sah of Cornell University. She talks to BETA’s then acting head of Behavioural Advice, Janine Bialecki, about what the evidence really says. Don’t miss this one.

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

BETA podcast: When conflict of interest disclosures backfire

Join us for this fascinating chat with one of the world’s leading experts in the field, Professor Toby Walsh.

Toby chats to BETA’s resident data science expert, Dr Shea Houlihan, about the future of AI and the major role behavioural science can play. Don’t miss this one.

Disclaimer: BETA's podcasts discuss behavioural economics and insights with a range of academics, experts and practitioners. The views expressed are those of the individuals interviewed and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.

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