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 …

We test whether financial incentives have an effect on weight reduction in a randomized controlled trial involving 700 … indeed indicates some health improvements. The higher reward causes only the group of obese women to lose more weight …. Overall, the results suggest that financial incentives can motivate people to lose weight significantly. …

We test whether financial incentives have an effect on weight reduction in a randomized controlled trial involving 700 … health improvements. The higher reward causes only the group of obese women to lose more weight. Overall, the results suggest … that financial incentives can motivate people to lose weight significantly. …

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on overweight and obesity in … China and investigates how and why the SES-obesity gradient differs with age. Using a longitudinal sample drawn from the … subsamples stratified by living area reveal that the SES gaps of obesity are generally larger for urban residents than rural …

overestimate their 5-year risks of a heart attack and a stroke. Obese individuals are thus aware of some but not all obesity …

obesity-related health risks. For given diseases, we document substantial heterogeneities in the accuracy of expectations …

empirical inquiries. Researchers have found that mismanagement is often a consequence of misplaced incentives. This paper tries … incentives. An introduction is given as a short overview of the healthcare sector with its economical specialties. This is … followed by an outline of some well established contract models and their effect on the demander’s incentives. The paper …

performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We … degree of control reduces the number of applications and that introducing performance incentives reduces this even further …

obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity. …