Busara
The Busara Lab is now the largest behavioral science lab in the world with a panel of more than 133,000 participants across sites in India, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.
Nairobi
http://www.ideas42.org/new-text-message-reminders-summons-recipients-improves-attendance-court-dramatically-cuts-warrants/
SMS reminders from the Office of Court Administration
New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants
Active
Since 2019
New York City
Evidence of this project's impact
A system of text-message reminders that alerted New York City residents with criminal summonses when they needed to show up in court, what nonprofit developer Ideas42 called a “small nudge,” cut the number of people who fail to show up by 13 percent (the program’s initial trial run has since been expanded citywide). (Source) — 2019-7
Resources
- Org. type
- Government / public sector
- Country
- United States of America 🇺🇸
- Founded
- 2019
- Language(s)
- English
- Tech stack
- BuiltWith report →
- Categories
- Behavioral economics programs, Govtech, Open justice, Organize campaigns, SMS tools, The Tech
- Added
- 2021-06-22
- Last modified
- 2026-07-12T16:45:44.000Z
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- Metrics of success
- A system of text-message reminders that alerted New York City residents with criminal summonses when they needed to show up in court, what nonprofit developer Ideas42 called a “small nudge,” cut the number of people who fail to show up by 13 percent (the program’s initial trial run has since been expanded citywide).
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