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The causal link between financial incentives and weight loss : an evidence-based survey of the literature

Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Reichert, Arndt R.; Reinermann, Holger - 2011

Obesity and overweight are linked to diseases that cost society a significant amount of resources. While behavior modification can reduce the problem, instigating such lifestyle changes is an uneasy task. One potential way to reduce the problem is through the use of financial incentives. In this...

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Small cash rewards for big losers : experimental insights into the fight against the obesity epidemic

Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2014

We complement the empirical evidence on the sustainability of weight loss achieved through cash rewards and, for the first time, rigorously examine the potential of cash rewards to prevent weight cycling. In a three period randomized controlled trial, about 700 obese persons were first assigned...

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Habit formation, obesity, and cash rewards

Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2018

This paper examines weight loss and the formation of healthy habits through cash rewards in the context of a multi-phase randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese individuals. We find effects of monetary incentives for weight loss of up to EUR 300 on body weight during all experimental...

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You can win by losing! : using self-betting as a commitment device : evidence from a weight loss program

Hirt-Schierbaum, Linda; Ivets, Maryna - 2020

In this paper we investigate the influence of financial incentives on agents’ commitment success who use a self-bet mechanism to overcome their self-control problems. We use results from the theoretical model developed in Hirt-Schierbaum and Ivets (2020) that allows for heuristic bias in...

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Does moderate weight loss affect subjective health perception in obese individuals? : evidence from field experimental data

Hafner, Lucas; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017

This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To cure possible endogeneity bias in the regression analysis, we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument for weight change. In contrast to related earlier work...

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Does money burn fat? : evidence from a randomized experiment

Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2012

We test whether financial incentives have an effect on weight reduction in a randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese persons assigned to three experimental groups. While two treatment groups obtain €150 and €300, respectively, for achieving an individually assigned target weight...

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Heterogeneous causal effects of financial incentives on weight loss : results of a large prospective randomized trial

Reuss-Borst, Monika; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2012

In a randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese persons assigned to three experimental groups, we test whether financial incentives have heterogeneous effects on weight reduction. While two treatment groups obtain EUR 150 and EUR 300, respectively, for achieving an individually-assigned...

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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2013

In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of public quality reporting, on the quality of medical...

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Intragroup communication in social dilemmas : an artefactual public good field experiment in small-scale communities

Hönow, Nils Christian; Pourviseh, Adrian - 2023

Communication is well known to increase cooperation rates in social dilemma situations, but the exact mechanisms behind this have been questioned and discussed. This study examines the impact of communication on public good provisioning in an artefactual field experiment conducted with 216...

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The more you know? : consumption behavior and the communication of economic information

Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Keldenich, Klemens - 2012

subjects receive about the likelihood of income shocks, whether subjects are informed about other people‘s beliefs about these … the income shock – consumption decisions are surprisingly close to the optimal consumption path. If at all, more … behavior is robust to the framing and other people‘s beliefs about income shocks. Given that actual decisions are signicantly …

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