Research
Our research
Across various contexts and research questions, as well as across a breadth of inequality-related outcomes in organisations and societies, BIG IDEAs have published more than a dozen publications in top-tier journals. These papers have been peer-reviewed and published in highly interdisciplinary or general audience journals that draw widespread academic and public attention. Spanning a wide research portfolio, these publications have appeared, for example, in Nature Human Behaviour, Science Advances, and PNAS, alongside many more papers that are forthcoming or being revised at top journals (e.g. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science and Nature Communications).
Publications
Behaviorally designed training leads to more diverse hiring [Link | PDF]
(with with C. Arslan, E. H. Chang, S. Chilazi and I. Bohnet)
Science, 2025, vol. 387, pp. 364-366
Catch me if you can: Using machine learning and behavioral interventions to reduce unethical behavior [Link | PDF]
(with M. Greene and K. DeCelles)
Behavioural Public Policy, 2025
Believed gender differences in social preferences [Link]
(with C. Exley, M. Moore and J.-H. Pezzuto)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024, vol. 140, pp. 403-458
Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content [Link | PDF | Data & Code]
(with A. R. Doshi)
Science Advances, 2024, vol. 10
Uncovering individualised treatment effects for educational trials [Link | PDF]
(with Z. Xiao, C. Kirkwood, D. Z. Li, T. Ford and S. Higgins)
Scientific Reports, 2024
Do followers mind the pay gap? An experimental test of the impact of the vertical pay gap on leader effectiveness [Link | PDF]
(with K. Peters, M. Fonseca and N. Steffens)
The Leadership Quarterly, 2024
Regulation and the trickle-down effect of women in leadership roles [Link | PDF]
(with A. Page, R. Sealy, and A. Parker)
The Leadership Quarterly, 2023
Human-centred mechanism design with democratic AI [Link]
(with R. Koster et al.)
Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, vol. 6, pp. 1398-1407
Reducing discrimination against job seekers with and without employment gaps [Link | PDF]
(with A. Kristal, L. Nicks, and J. Gloor)
Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, vol. 7, pp. 211-218
Achieving Gender Balance at All Levels of Your Company [Link]
(by Siri Chilazi, Iris Bohnet, and Oliver Hauser)
Harvard Business Review
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using big data Analytics: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science [Link | PDF]
(with A. Lee, I. Inceoglu and M. Greene)
The Leadership Quarterly, 2020, vol. 33, pp. 1-14
We Have a Rare Opportunity to Create a Stronger, More Equitable Society [Link]
(by Shai Davidai, Martin Day, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Oliver Hauser, Jon Jachimowicz, M. Usman Mirza, Nailya Ordabayeva, L. Taylor Phillips, Barnabas Szaszi, and Stephanie Tepper)
Behavioural Scientist
Thin slices of workgroups [Link | PDF]
(with P. Satterstrom, J. T. Polzer, L. B. Kwan, W. Wiruchnipawan and M. Burke)
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2019, vol. 151, pp. 104-117
The role of inequity aversion in microloan defaults [Link]
(with M. R. Jordan, W. Dickens and D. G. Rand)
Behavioural Public Policy, 2019
Budging beliefs, nudging behaviour [Link | PDF]
(with F. Gino and M. I. Norton)
Mind & Society, 2018, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 15-26
Innovation with field experiments: Studying organizational behaviors in actual organizations [Link | PDF]
(with E. Linos and T. Rogers)
Research in Organizational Behavior, 2017, vol. 37, pp. 185-198
How to Design (and Analyze) a Business Experiment [Link]
(by Oliver Hauser and Michael Luca)
Harvard Business Review
The BIG IDEAs initiative is working on the immensely important issue of workplace inequality. It is making a real difference by implementing cutting edge research insights into workplaces.
Professor Iris Bohnet BIG IDEAs advisory board
