Lessons from behavioral economics to improve treatment adherence in parenting programs : an application to SMS

Nicolas Ajzenman, Florencia López Boo

A growing literature shows how insights from behavioral economics can be successfully adopted in simple interventions through SMS or other types of low-cost communications. In this short, note we provide concrete basic guidelines to design behaviorally informed messages, based on theory and our own experience. We provide examples applied to parenting interventions.

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Year of publication:	November 2019
Authors:	Ajzenman, Nicolas ; López Bóo, Florencia
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Subject:	behavioral interventions \| parenting \| child development \| poverty \| Verhaltensökonomik \| Behavioral economics \| Kinder \| Children \| Armut \| Poverty \| Eltern \| Parents \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment