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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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This study uses a laboratory experiment to analyze the effectiveness of performance-based monetary incentives in the … incentives in the given task. However, regular students do react in the expected way: Teachers transmit a significantly higher … share of their knowledge when paid according to student performance. -- Education ; monetary incentives ; video analysis …
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is through the use of financial incentives. In this survey, we review the available evidence with a significant emphasis … on studies that yield credible estimates of the effect of financial incentives on weight loss. We find that the … estimates of the effect. -- Financial incentives ; weight loss ; obesity ; randomized experiment ; survey …
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Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper aims to assess whether there is a causal relationship between weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals. To address the endogeneity of weight loss that is...
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system’s creation. We trace the failure to stem the growth of accidents to faulty incentives built into the 1884 legislation …
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effectiveness of financial incentives for weight loss among the obese. Estimation results indicate that the choice of the estimation …
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We test whether financial incentives have an effect on weight reduction in a randomized controlled trial involving 700 … that financial incentives can motivate people to lose weight significantly. -- Randomized experiment ; financial incentives …
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different payoff schemes that introduce variation in financial incentives. Testing ceteris paribus conditions of the financial … incentives. Subjects who are explicitly informed about the expected pension wealth respond more strongly to financial incentives …
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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 … date has not succeeded in distinguishing between the effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives, which are usually …
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financial incentives have heterogeneous effects on weight reduction. While two treatment groups obtain EUR 150 and EUR 300 … financial incentives. Our conclusions are the following: (1) monetary rewards effectively induce obese individuals to reduce … not lose weight via conventional weight-loss intervention programs, financial incentives are an effective supplement to …
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