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Negotiating neuroliberalism: Changing behaviours, values and beliefs
Qualitative interviews with policy executives and entrepreneurs who have been utilising the ideas of the behavioural sciences within the design and delivery of public policy.... -
Experimental data from studies of human decision making under risk and percep...
Data collected under ESRC transformative research award: "A new perspective on human judgement and decision making as optimal: A framework for behaviour change". Data comprise 6... -
Welfare markets and personal risk management in England and Scotland
The project adopted a broad approach, employing quantitative as well as qualitative methods. It covered both public and private forms of risk protection, and it analysed... -
UK Annual report narrative disclosure scores
In the CFIE project we analysed more than 10,000 annual reports for a variety of factors as described in the explanatory notes. The analysis results in this spreadsheet. For... -
Ageing, well being and development - a comparative study of Brazil and South ...
The project collected three main types of data: (1)A second wave of a 2002 household surveys in Brazil and South Africa, which sampled just over 1000 households each in the... -
A behavioural economic analysis of agricultural investment decisions in Uganda
The collection contains four sets of data files and related questionnaires and experimental scripts, preceded by three files that contextualise the data. The file "project... -
The politics of Chinese engagement with African 'development': Case studies o...
The project examined the impacts of China's enhanced global role on African politics (and other donors) through case studies of Angola and Ghana and organised the research... -
Wage Top-Ups and Work Incentives: The Implications of the UK's Working Tax Cr...
The project aimed to explore the motivations of Working Tax Credit recipients and their understanding of the UK scheme. This was done through in-depth face-to-face interviews... -
Malaria, productivity and access to treatment: Experimental evidence from Nig...
Data collected includes a survey on the effect of malaria on agricultural worker productivity and physical activity as well as the demand for malaria health insurance. A mobile... -
The politics of austerity in public services: UK public finance and political...
This spreadsheet contains most of the secondary data. The spreadsheet contains all the series for which we were able to obtain permission from the publishers/owners to show in... -
Enterprise risk management interview and survey data
The research investigates the evolutionary process of risk management practices associated with the implementation of enterprise risk management (ERM) across the finance sector.... -
Promoting Sustainable Travel: a social marketing approach
The objectives of the research were as follows: (1) to identify and measure a series of ‘sustainable travel behaviours’ using a sample of individuals from the general public;... -
Elite interviews: Russia and Islam
The project had two main dimensions: the first is theoretical and the second is empirical, focusing on three case studies (Moscow, Tatarstan and Dagestan). The theoretical... -
World Top Incomes Database
The World Top Incomes Database provides statistical information on the shares of top income groups for 30 countries. The construction of this database was possible thanks to the... -
Sustaining growth for innovative new enterprises: UK firm data
To select the group of UK firms we initially searched in the FAME database (available from the University of Manchester Library) with keywords relating to the green goods... -
Influences of identity, community and social networks on ethnic monitory repr...
This study into ethnic minority workers who have experienced problems at work was concerned with understanding more about how individuals went about dealing with the issues they... -
Spaces of business education and the reproduction of financial theory in prac...
This project aimed to advance the understanding of the relationship between financial education and practice in London's financial district. Face-to-face semi structured... -
Poverty dynamics: Childhood experience on a low income
The assumptions, methods and findings of dynamic poverty research are in general found to be a simplified and decontextualized version, rather than a misrepresentation of, the... -
On reminder effects, drop-outs and dominance: Evidence from an online experim...
The data contains one observation for each of the 233 participants of this monetarily incentivized experiment. Participants were randomly recruited using ORSEE (Greiner B. The... -
US energy information administration form EIA-767 data
The dataset contains key design and regulatory parameters of flue gas desulfurization devices or scrubbers, and associated boilers and generators installed at coal-fired power...