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Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company / Heather Royer, Mark F. Stehr, Justin R. Sydnor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Royer, Heather.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18580.
- NBER working paper series no. w18580
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2012.
- Summary:
- Financial incentives have been shown to have strong positive short-run effects for problematic health behaviors, but the effects often disappear once incentive programs end. This paper analyzes the results of a large-scale workplace field experiment to examine whether self-funded commitment contracts improve the long-run effects of incentive programs. Consistent with existing findings, workers responded strongly to an incentive targeting use of the company gym, but long-run effects were modest, at best. However, workers in the treatment arm that combined the incentive program with a commitment contract option showed long-lasting behavioral changes, persisting even 1 year after the incentive ended.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2012.
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