The Structure of Health Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Abstract
A growing number of firms use incentive programs to encourage healthy behaviors, but there is little evidence about how such incentives should be structured over time. We explore this issue using a large field experiment that incentivized employees of a Fortune 500 company to use their workplace gym. We compare the effectiveness of a treatment with constant incentives over 8 weeks to two treatments that varied incentives over time. One variable...
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Title
The Structure of Health Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Published Date
May 1, 2020
Journal
Volume
66
Issue
5
Pages
1890 - 1908
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