McCourt School of Public Policy
McCourt School of Public Policy

About Us

The Better Government Lab aims to work with government agencies to improve their effectiveness and make programs and services more accessible to people through the use of data analytics, rigorous evaluations and insights from the social and behavioral sciences.

Our team

Dr. HerdPamela Herd
Donald MoynihanDonald Maynihan
Headshot of Sebastian Jilke wearing a grey suit Sebastian Jilke
Day ManoliDayanand Manoli
Dr. Rebecca Johnson is an assistant professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and a data scientist at The Lab @ DC.Rebecca Johnson
Dan HonigDan Honig
Eric Giannella

Better Government Lab Affiliates

Better Government Lab Affiliates

Gulsanna Mamediieva

Gulsanna Mamediieva
As a Better Government Lab Research Fellow, she has worked on the project

Tracee Saunders

Xiaoyang Xu

Amira Boland

Our Services

BGL is available to work with public organizations to provide data science solutions, conduct rigorous program evaluations, apply and test behavioral insights to increase government effectiveness, or conduct administrative burden audits. Our co-directors are available to give presentations or keynotes on a broad range of topics, including program access and administrative burdens, discrimination in policy implementation, evidence-based policy-making, program evaluation in government,  performance management, behavioral insights and “nudging”, and social policy interventions training. If your team is interested in learning more about how to use behavioral insights to increase government effectiveness, reduce administrative burdens, please contact us.