Comments on contingency management and conditional cash transfers
This essay discusses research on incentive-based interventions to promote healthy behavior change, contingency management (CM) and conditional cash transfers (CCT). The overarching point of the essay is that CM and CCT are often treated as distinct areas of inquiry when at their core they represent a common approach. Some potential bi-directional benefits of recognizing this commonality are discussed. Distinct intellectual traditions probably account for the separate paths of CM and CCT to date, with the former being rooted in behavioral psychology and the latter in microeconomics. It is concluded that the emerging field of behavioral economics, which is informed by and integrates principles of each of those disciplines, may provide the proper conceptual framework for integrating CM and CCT. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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2010
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Authors: | Higgins, Stephen T. |
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Health Economics. - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., ISSN 1057-9230. - Vol. 19.2010, 10, p. 1255-1258
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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