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How childbearing patterns have changed

How childbearing patterns have changed

Ian Diamond explains why UK policymakers need to understand the significance of recent trends   The components of population growth have been changing faster than at any time in my 45 years of working on population data. For example, people’s expectations of how...
Why government needs a fresh ‘nudge’

Why government needs a fresh ‘nudge’

David Halpern, founder of the world’s first behavioural insights unit, says it’s more important than ever that policymakers understand human behaviour Back in the early days of Tony Blair’s newly created Strategy Unit, I invited Danny Kahneman to join us for a private...