Who we are

We are the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government, or BETA. We are the Australian Government's central unit for applying behavioural insights (BI) to public policy.

BETA has a clear vision – to improve the lives of Australians. We do that through putting human behaviour at the heart of government policy. We bring together research from economics, psychology and behavioural science to design and test the application of behavioural insights to policy.