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Common Cents Names New Class to Advance Financial Health Using Behavioral Science
2018 partners will create behavioral interventions with Common Cents Lab to improve financial decision-making for low- to moderate-income people in America San Francisco, CA and Durham, NC – March 1, 2018 – Common Cents…
Common Cents Lab / FEBRUARY 28 2018
Common Cents Report: Hacking Human Behavior to Improve Financial Health
57 projects and experiments involving over 1.7 million people demonstrate how behavioral science is already improving financial health for half a million low-to-moderate income individuals. San Francisco, Calif. and Durham, NC – March 1,…
Looking for an impact idea for next year’s tax season? We got you covered.
By Stephanie Tepper and Emory Nelms Over the last few years, the Common Cents Lab has designed and run multiple experiments that infuse the best practices for VITA programs with insights from behavioral science….
Common Cents Lab, Money, Increase Short- and Long-term Savings / DECEMBER 6 2017
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Digital Health’s Secret Weapon: Behavioral Science
By Aline Holzwarth Article originally appeared in HealthTech magazine. Read the full article here. With the ubiquity of smartphones, and the fact that everyone (including your grandma) carries their devices with them everywhere, we also carry…
The Mbrella Calendar: Helping Kenyan Families Track Their Savings for Health Insurance
Mbrella is a charitable organization devoted to helping impoverished Kenyan families buy health insurance. Mbrella connects donors with Kenyan mothers and employs a number of behavioral interventions meant to help the mother gain enough…
Make plans, not resolutions
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. By Aline Holzwarth Your new year’s resolution is very likely to fail. Most do. Resolutions are just not built to succeed. They rely on willpower, hoping…
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Dear friends, In thinking about how to improve email (something that gives us both joy and stress), I’d like to ask for your help. I’m trying to understand how people use email and what…