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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
. This is the first experiment of this kind that finds effects of weight loss rewards up to 18 months after they were removed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461941
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A Framed Field Experiment on the Effect of Feedback on Antibiotics Provision in Pediatrics
Eilermann, Kerstin - 2018
employ a novel randomized, controlled framed field experiment with pediatricians in tertiary pediatric care units in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923336
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Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021
To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email-correspondence study in Germany. We approach 3,224 physician offices in the 79 largest cities in Germany with fictitious appointment requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705540
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The relationship between cognitive ability and risk preferences in a developing nation : findings from the field
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022
We find a strong relationship between risk-loving preferences and cognitive ability which becomes stronger as adherence to the generalized axiom of revealed preference (a proxy for rationality) increases. Our results are taken from a field study of individuals at the very bottom of the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187886
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Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021
To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email-correspondence study in Germany. We approach 3,224 physician offices in the 79 largest cities in Germany with fictitious appointment requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665388
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The effect of a mystery shopper scheme on prescribing behavior in primary care: results from a field experiment
Cheo, Roland Kim San; Ge, Ge; Godager, Geir; Liu, Rugang; … - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 33, pp. 1-19
randomized treatment-control design, we conducted a field experiment in primary care clinics in a Chinese city. We investigate …
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Promoting breast cancer screening take-ups with zero cost : evidence from an experiment on formatting invitation letters in Italy
Bertoni, Marco; Corazzini, Luca; Robone, Silvana - 2019
We ran a randomized field experiment to ascertain whether a costless manipulation of the informational content …
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Behavioural change and alcohol-fuelled violence : a field experiment
Long, Iain W.; Matthews, Kent; Sivarajasingam, Vaseekaran - 2019
We conduct a field experiment to assess whether alcohol-induced behavioural changes explain participants' recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009419
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Blood donations and incentives : evidence from a field experiment
Götte, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - 2019
-month large-scale field experiment and a fifteen-month follow-up period, involving more than 10,000 previous donors. We examine … offer of a lottery ticket, on average, increases the probability to donate blood during the experiment by 5.6 percentage … reduction in donations is observed after the experiment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012134026
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Physician behavior under prospective payment schemes : evidence from artefactual field and lab experiments
Hafner, Lucas; Reif, Simon; Seebauer, Michael - 2017
laboratory experiment in neutral as well as medical framing using students and medical doctors as subjects. Subjects in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741401