This research explores new frontiers in gender equity research by focusing on motivational factors and behavioural insights to understand why businesses, particularly small businesses, may act (or not) to close the gender pay gap and to tailor policy tools. The report offers a firm-level analysis of the gender pay gap and investigates how cultural norms...

Behavioural science research and practice are increasingly identifying ways in which government processes are hindering equitable and efficient access to programs and the policy benefits they deliver. This paper delineates good practice principles, derived from ten case studies, aimed at promoting the integration of 'sludge' audit methodologies into public governance and service design.

This guide outlines 14 good practice principles to encourage the incorporation of behavioural perspectives into policy-making. Whereas traditional policy analysis methods make assumptions about people and their behaviour which may not be true in practice, a behavioural lens equips policy-makers with a more realistic understanding of how people interact with each other and institutions.

This paper addresses demand-side policy measures to improve environmental sustainability. It outlines the potential of such measures, and presents relevant findings from the cross-country OECD 'Survey on Environmental Policies and Individual Behaviour Change' (EPIC) on the main barriers that households face in adopting sustainable behaviours.

This article reports on a study that assessed people's gambling during and after the Australian COVID-19 lockdown. It found that gambling availability appears a stronger influence on gambling problems than psychosocial risk factors. Reducing the supply of high-risk gambling products is likely to reduce gambling harm.