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Information avoidance and medical screening : a field experiment in China
Li, Yufeng; Meng, Juanjuan; Song, Changcheng; Zheng, Kai - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 67 (2021) 7, pp. 4252-4272
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Increasing the take-up of public health services : an experiment on nudges and digital tools in Uruguay
Cuesta, Ana; Delgado, Lucia; Gallegos, Sebastián; … - 2021
prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women …
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A model of reference-dependent belief updating
Maier, Johannes K.; König, Clemens - 2016
We propose a model of instrumental belief choice under loss aversion. When new information arrives, an agent is … biases generate prior-dependent information preferences, such that agents may avoid information when being unconfident but … are information seeking otherwise. Because belief updating depends on the decision problem in which new information is …
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The endowment effect in the general population
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea - 2022
We study the endowment effect and expectation-based reference points in the field leveraging the setup of the Socio-Economic Panel. Households receive a small item for taking part in the panel, and we randomly assign respondents either a towel or a notebook, which they can exchange at the end of...
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The endowment effect in the general population
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea - 2022
We study the endowment effect and expectation-based reference points in the field leveraging the setup of the Socio-Economic Panel. Households receive a small item for taking part in the panel, and we randomly assign respondents either a towel or a notebook, which they can exchange at the end of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476660
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Habit formation and rational addiction : a field experiment in handwashing
Hussam, Reshmaan; Rabbani, Atonu; Reggiani, Giovanni; … - 2017
We test the main predictions of the rational addiction model, reconceptualized as rational habit formation, in the context of handwashing. To track habit formation, we design soap dispensers with timed sensors. We test for rational habit formation by informing some households about a future...
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Habit formation, obesity, and cash rewards
Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2018
incentivized participants having formed healthy habits by the time the experiment ended and that only the speed of the transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846799
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Habit formation, obesity, and cash rewards
Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2018
incentivized participants having formed healthy habits by the time the experiment ended and that only the speed of the transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823823
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Does Promoting One Behavior Distract from Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Trachtman, Hannah - 2022
costly, generic interventions might induce negative spillovers on other behaviors. I run a large field experiment in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323428
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Nudging the trendsetters : increasing second-dose HPV vaccination in Bogota, Colombia
Martínez, Déborah; Díaz, Lina; Maldonado Zambrano, … - 2023
from Bogota's Secretariat of Health in a field experiment, we measure the impact of various norm nudges, including trending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540586