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What can we learn from public servants about the state of local government work?
The People Lab is conducting an annual survey of state and local employees across the US to better understand their experiences, perceptions, and beliefs.
Featured Project
Does receiving rental assistance improve housing stability among vulnerable populations?
In collaboration with HOST, we co-designed a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of Denver County’s rental assistance program.
Featured Project
How can we leverage LLM chatbots to support policymakers’ in understanding and using evidence?
The People Lab is working with a team of researchers and developers to create an AI-driven “PolicyBot” designed to support policymakers’ in understanding, translating, and using evidence.
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What predicts the public’s views about government workers?
The People Lab is conducting a series of online studies to better understand stereotypes about government workers, what predicts these views, and how they relate to policy-relevant outcomes.
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What factors motivate policymakers’ demand for evidence-based solutions?
The People Lab is designing a series of online experiments to better understand what factors drive interest in and demand for evidence-based solutions among policymakers.
How can we leverage LLM chatbots to support policymakers’ in understanding and using evidence?
The People Lab is working with a team of researchers and developers to create an AI-driven “PolicyBot” designed to support policymakers’ in understanding, translating, and using evidence.
What predicts policymakers’ decisions to adopt evidence-based strategies?
Organizational inertia may explain why only about 30% of behavioral interventions tested in field experiments end up being adopted by the city department that tested them.
How can we increase international recruitment of health professionals?
Through a “megastudy,” we are testing different outreach strategies aimed at recruiting nurses and nursing assistants from across Europe to work in Denmark.
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