Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We conduct a controlled lab-field experiment to directly test the short-run spillover effects of one-off financial … incentives in health. We consider how incentives affect effort in a physical activity task – and then how they spillover to … subsequent eating behaviour. Compared to a control group, we find that low incentives increase effort and have little effect on …