. 2017 Jun 5;28(8):1041–1055. doi: 10.1177/0956797617702501

Table 1.

Categorization of Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST) and Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) Focus Areas

Our categorization	Corresponding focus area in SBST 2015 Annual Report	Corresponding focus area in BIT 2013–2015 Update Report	Outcome variable of interest
Financial security in retirement	Promoting retirement security	Empowering consumers^a	Retirement savings
Education	Improving college access and affordability	Education	College enrollment among recent high school graduates
Energy	N/A	Energy and sustainability	Energy consumption
Health	Helping families get health coverage and stay healthy	Health and well-being	Adult outpatient influenza vaccinations
Job training	Advancing economic opportunity	Economic growth and the labor market; skills and youth	Enrollment in job-training programs^c
Program integrity and compliance	Promoting program integrity and compliance	Fraud, error, and debt^b	Compliance with paying a required fee to the government^c
Home affairs	N/A	Home affairs	Reducing crimes such as illegal migration, mobile-phone theft, and online exploitation^c

Note: Our list excluded the following SBST and BIT focus areas because they are not major areas of domestic policy for the U.S. government: ensuring cost-effective program operations (SBST), giving and social action (BIT), international development (BIT), and work with other governments (BIT).

We grouped this focus area with SBST’s focus area on promoting retirement security because its leading example concerned pensions. ^bWe grouped this focus area with SBST’s focus area on promoting program integrity and compliance because both focused on improving tax and fee collection. ^cFor these variables, the targeted behaviors were not studied in published research articles in leading academic journals from 2000 to mid-2015 (see Method for an explanation of our journal selection criteria), so we excluded these areas from our analysis.