| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23567 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23567 |
| Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members | |
| Mariana Carrera; Heather Royer; Mark Stehr; Justin Sydnor | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-07-17 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of modest incentives to attend the gym among new members of a fitness facility, a population that is already engaged in trying to change a health behavior. Our experiment randomized 836 new members of a private gym into a control group, receiving a $30 payment unconditionally, or one of 3 incentive groups, receiving a payment if they attended the gym at least 9 times over their first 6 weeks as members. The incentives were a $30 payment, a $60 payment, and an item costing $30 that leveraged the endowment effect. These incentives had only moderate impacts on attendance during members’ first 6 weeks and no effect on their subsequent visit trajectories. We document substantial overconfidence among new members about their likely visit rates and discuss how overconfidence may undermine the effectiveness of a modest incentive program. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23567 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581241 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mariana Carrera,Heather Royer,Mark Stehr,et al. Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members. 2017. |
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