In a randomized field experiment, we provide personalized suggestions about suitable alternative occupations to long-term unemployed job seekers in the UK. The suggestions are automatically generated, integrated in an online job search platform, and fed into actual search queries. Effects on the...

Workers with fixed-term contracts typically have worse health than workers with permanent contracts. We show that these differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the Netherlands. Using unique administrative data on health...

We show that limited attention and present bias contribute to low levels of exercise. First, ina large randomized experiment, we find that email reminders increase gym visits by 13 % andthat they benefit nearly all types of individuals. Limited attention can explain these effects.Second, using a...