Behavioural Insights



Around the world, tax compliance is a serious problem with big consequences. The case is no different in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It is an… Read More ›

Can Sharing the Joy of Tax Increase Government Revenue in PNG?

In the mid-1990s Martin Feldstein, economics professor at Harvard University and perhaps the most Nobel-worthy public finance economist not to receive the prize (he died… Read More ›

Do Couples Bunch More? Evidence from Partnered and Single Taxpayers in New Zealand

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) published a paper earlier this year entitled ‘Behavioural assumptions and PBO costings’ to support public understanding and transparency around how… Read More ›

Understanding How Behavioural Assumptions Are Accounted for in Policy Costings: The Parliamentary Budget Office’s Approach

The aging population in Australia threatens the sustainability of the Australian pension system. Projections from the Department of Treasury’s 2015 Intergenerational Report suggest that the… Read More ›

Behavioural Responses to Pension Age Increase Do Not Thwart Fiscal Savings

In 2008, the Australian Government increased the excise tax on premixed alcoholic drinks, or alcopops, so that they were taxed at the same rate as… Read More ›

Examining Beverage-Specific Trends in Youth Drinking in Australia Before and After the Implementation of the ‘Alcopops Tax’

Australian welfare reforms in 2006 were meant to promote work among lone mothers. But they may have had an unintentional side effect. A new study… Read More ›

The Effect of Welfare Reforms on Repartnering

Climate change and the impact of pollution on our planet are affecting all of us on a daily basis. The motor vehicles we drive pollute… Read More ›

Influencing Consumers to Choose Low-Emission Motor Vehicles

There is a growing interest in quantifying the degree in which fiscal policy instruments, such as government spending or changes in our tax structure, shape… Read More ›

A Closer Look at the Employment Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks: What Have Minorities Got to Do With It?

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