Projects

"What I cannot create, I do not understand." — Richard Feynman

• Behavioral Decision Pathways
• Sludge Audits
• Nudge Interventions
• Pre-Analysis Plans
• Randomized Evaluations
• Behavioral Policy Briefs

Map your own behavioral decision pathways

• The 3B Framework & Behavioral Design Guide (Irrational Labs) - A step-by-step practitioner methodology for isolating target behaviors, mapping choice environments, and diagnosing psychological barriers.
• Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy (Datta & Mullainathan / ideas42) - A foundational methodological guide detailing ideas42's behavioral mapping process to locate decision bottlenecks and contextual stress points.

Conduct your own sludge audits

• The NSW Government Sludge Audit Method Guide (NSW Behavioural Insights Unit) - The premier open public-sector toolkit for auditing, measuring, and eliminating administrative burdens, form complexities, and cognitive frictions.
• Fixing Frictions: 'Sludge Audits' Around the World (OECD) - A comprehensive policy paper providing nine good practice principles and ten real-world case studies for conducting institutional sludge audits.

Design your own nudge interventions

• The EAST Framework: Four Simple Ways to Apply Behavioural Insights (The Behavioural Insights Team) - The benchmark field manual providing actionable heuristics and case studies to make desired behaviors Easy, Attractive, Social, and Timely.
• Tools and Ethics for Applied Behavioural Insights: The BASIC Toolkit (OECD) - An operational 5-stage policy framework covering behavioral definition, qualitative analysis, strategy selection, ethical evaluation, and change management.

Register your own pre-analysis plans

• Pre-Analysis Plans: A Guide for Researchers (J-PAL) - A detailed guide explaining how to specify hypotheses, econometric models, primary outcomes, and subgroup analyses prior to data access.
• A Pre-Analysis Plan Checklist (David McKenzie, World Bank Development Impact) - A practical ten-point checklist covering statistical power, model specification, multiple inference corrections, and attrition protocols.
• A Guide to Preregistration and Registered Reports (Open Science Framework) - A comprehensive guide to drafting and depositing time-stamped study registrations and registered reports to prevent publication bias and p-hacking.

Run your own randomized evaluations

• Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials (UK Cabinet Office & Behavioural Insights Team) - A foundational, 9-step operational guide detailing how to design, randomize, implement, and evaluate field interventions.
• Checklist for Launching a Randomized Evaluation in the United States (J-PAL North America) - An actionable project management checklist covering administrative steps, randomization strategies, institutional review protocols, and data infrastructure.
• Introduction to Randomized Evaluations (J-PAL) - An intuitive, methodologically rigorous walkthrough covering counterfactual reasoning, randomization units, and common evaluation pitfalls.

Write your own behavioral policy briefs

• Policy Briefs 101: A Guide for Translating Research Findings into Policy Impact (California Policy Lab) - A targeted, 6-page manual demonstrating how to structure executive summaries, visualize behavioral data, and formulate actionable policy recommendations.
• How to Write a Policy Brief (International Development Research Centre) - A modular guide and template for organizing research findings into concise, decision-focused briefs for policymakers.
• Writing Briefs (CDC POLARIS) - A structured public policy framework categorizing four types of briefing documents and the sequential steps required to inform government stakeholder decisions.