Description: "Small Miracles" --Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy

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"Small Miracles" --Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy

One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make d...

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Main Authors:	Demeritt, Allison, Hoff, Karla
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	ACHIEVEMENT AGED AGGRESSIVE ANXIETY ATTENTION ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS AUTISM BEHAVIOR CHANGE BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BEHAVIORS BELIEFS BEST PRACTICES CATEGORIZATION CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD SURVIVAL CIVIL SOCIETY CLASSROOMS COGNITIVE SCIENCE COLLEGES COMMON SENSE COMMUNITIES COMPETENCE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT CRIME DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DISCIPLINES DISCUSSIONS DISENGAGEMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL CAREER EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EFFICIENT COORDINATION EMOTION EMPLOYMENT ENROLLMENT ETHICS EXAM EXERCISES FAMILIES FEMALE EDUCATION GENDER GIRLS HEALTH CARE HEURISTICS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HUMAN RESOURCES IDEA IDEAS INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS INSIGHTS INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS LAWS LEADERSHIP LEADING MARKETING MENTAL CONSTRUCTS MENTAL MODELS MORTALITY NATURAL SCIENCES OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PATIENTS PERCEPTION PERSONALITY PHYSICIANS POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS PRACTITIONERS PRIMING PRODUCTIVITY PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY PSYCHOLOGISTS PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY SCHOOLS REASONING RESEARCHERS RITUALS RULES OF THUMB SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SMOKING SOCIAL EXCLUSION SOCIAL FABRIC SOCIAL GROUP SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL IDENTITY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS STUDENT PERFORMANCE TEACHER TEACHERS TEXTBOOKS THERAPY THINKING UNDERGRADUATES UNIVERSITY STUDENTS VIOLENCE YOUTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/24021435/small-miracles-behavioral-insights-improve-development-policy-world-development-report-2015 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21592

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Summary:	One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make decisions into a coherent framework useful for designing development policy. This paper elaborates on the three principles of human thinking that constitute the report's intellectual framework: Human thinking is dual process -- automatic as well as deliberative (thinking automatically); it is conditioned by social context and the salience of social identities (thinking socially); and it is shaped by mental models that are socially constructed (thinking with mental models). Behavioral insights create scope for policy interventions that produce "miracles" from the perspective of traditional economics.