Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members
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- Carrera, Mariana & Royer, Heather & Stehr, Mark & Sydnor, Justin, 2018. "Can financial incentives help people trying to establish new habits? Experimental evidence with new gym members," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 202-214.
- Mariana Carrera & Heather Royer & Mark Stehr & Justin Sydnor, 2017. "Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members," NBER Working Papers 23567, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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exercise; incentives; endowment effect; overconfidence;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2017-07-16 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2017-07-16 (Experimental Economics)
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