Hospital and health care administrators have often named prescription drug costs as one of their largest cost problems. Relatedly, a significant body of research demonstrates that meals and honoraria from pharmaceutical firms to physicians leads to higher prescribing of expensive, brand name...

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of a corporate wellness program on worker productivity using a panel of objective health and productivity data from 111 workers in five laundry plants. Although almost 90% of companies use wellness programs, existing research has focused on cost...

Research has shown that goal-based incentive systems lead to cheating. However, goal-based systems contain many distinct components, including the assignment of the target, justification of the target through information such as social comparisons, and monetary rewards for meeting the target....