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Self-control problems constitute a potential explanation for the under-investment in preventive health care observed in low-income countries. A commonly proposed policy tool to solve such problems is offering consumers commitment devices. We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the...
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We conduct a field experiment with 1,300 participants in India to measure whether individuals save more when information about their savings is regularly shared with another member of their village (a “monitor”). We focus on whether the monitor's effectiveness depends on her social network...
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economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate … incentives, combining all of these effects, positively and significantly increased donations, ignoring individuals who took …
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interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of … study within this genre that has sparked interest and debate revolves around the "hidden costs" of conditional incentives … findings emerge. First, there are hidden benefits of conditional incentives that would have gone undetected had we maintained a …
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We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
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incentives framed as both "losses" and "gains" increase productivity for both individuals and teams. In addition, teams more …
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This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in …
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temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics for the initiation of prenatal care in the first trimester of … the incentives were being paid, and this effect persisted at least 24 months or more after the incentives ended. These … results are consistent with a model where the incentives enable providers to address the fixed costs of overcoming …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … goods as incentives, and estimates respondents' willingness to support the oldest food bank in the U.S …
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Firms and governments often use moral suasion and economic incentives to influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivations … quickly after repeated interventions. Economic incentives produced larger and persistent effects, which induced habit … formation after the final interventions. While each policy produces substantial welfare gains, economic incentives provide …
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