Financial Behaviors
Behavioral Interventions to Promote Social Mobility
Financial Behaviors
The Center for Social Development collaborates with organizations across sectors to implement behavioral economic interventions that aim to improve the financial well-being of individuals.
myRA Savings Program
Financial Behaviors
In a collaborative project with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Intuit, Inc., a team of Washington University researchers explored methods of promoting the myRA (My Retirement Account) savings program at tax time—when households file their taxes. It focused specifically on opportunities in an online tax-filing setting and in person at Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites.
Refund to Savings (R2S)
Financial Behaviors
The Refund to Savings experiment measures the effect of interventions informed by behavioral economics that seek to increase saving at tax time.