Nudging

November 16, 2022 Civic Data In this episode Professor Goldsmith talks with Professor Elizabeth Linos, director of The People Lab and an expert in data and evidence-based policymaking who researches how to best support the people of government and the...

October 29, 2020 COVID-19 What Works Cities Certification Criteria Evaluation 4: In the past 12 months, your local government has launched two or more experimental or quasi-experimental evaluations. Evaluation 5: In the past 12 months, your local...

September 8, 2020 Nudging This post is part of the Innovating for Equity series. “Congratulations on your graduation and your acceptance to Sacramento City College!” So many high school seniors wait for the moment they receive their college acceptance...

December 12, 2019 Mobility The scooters are coming. And the dockless bikes. And maybe even dockless mopeds? These micro-mobility vehicles can be useful last-mile solutions and complement the public transportation infrastructure of a city. They can also be...

November 19, 2019 Equity This post is part of the Innovating for Equity series. In California, there are over 7 million individuals who go to work each day, follow the rules, and earn a paycheck, yet don’t have access to an employer-sponsored retirement...

November 12, 2019 Equity This post is part of the Innovating for Equity series. As part of our Innovating for Equity series, we’re examining how some local leaders have now taken on the painstaking work of scrubbing biases and barriers out of their...

March 1, 2018 What Works Cities This article originally appeared as part of a paper on What Works Cities’ Certification program. With help from What Works Cities, the City of Scottsdale has pursued behaviorally-informed interventions in a great variety of...

January 18, 2018 Nudging Last week, the government of Hawaii accidentally sent a massive alert to citizens warning of an impending ballistic missile attack. The message ended with the ominous warning “this is not a drill,” only to alert Hawaiians some 40...

January 10, 2018 Civic Data This post originally appeared on Stephen Goldsmith's Better Faster Cheaper blog on Governing.com. You might have heard recently about a large study of body-worn police cameras in Washington, D.C,. that shed new light on the...

Whether the result of a destructive natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina or the consequence of the foreclosure and home loan crisis of the mid-2000s, cities across America have been burdened with blight, the presence of vacant and abandoned properties...