The way we measure the success of #BehavioralPublicPolicies (BPPs) camouflages inequalities
Till Grüne-Yanoff suggests #InterventionFairness to understand and analyse how and why BPPs treat people heterogeneously 👇
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This article by M. Khosravi, H. Danaeefard & T. Babazade introduces apophonic policies as a type of government failure that is rooted in the innate/cognitive human tendency to see meaningful but imaginary patterns among random data. Link in the comments! #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
Policy and Society
Review of Policy Research
🧠 Do citizens take information into account when forming an opinion about new policy proposals or do they just follow their priors?
@jannikfenger.bsky.social suggests they do by exploiting panel data on EU referendums in Denmark and the UK 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
JEPP Journal
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Are school cops making schools safer or just more punitive?
New research has the answer, & it's complicated. SROs do reduce some forms of violence, they have zero effect on gun incidents. Suspensions, expulsions, & student arrests all spike. Read more: https://ow.ly/i6xZ50Z5T5S
💫 New issue alert:
Analyzing ~20,000 utterances from 154 recorded public service encounters in Germany, this study finds bureaucrats speak more complexly and emotionally to male clients than female ones. The bureaucrat's own gender? No effect.
By Laurin Friedrich & Steffen Eckhard
