Incentives to Exercise

By Gary Charness, Uri Gneezy. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives (2012, neutral): “Contact the author or original publisher for any necessary permissions. eScholarship is not the copyright owner for deposited works.”
Randomization Tests for Weak Null Hypotheses in Randomized Experiments (2018, methodology): “ation give nearly identical conﬁdence intervals. For the second main effect, the FRT conﬁdence interval is shifted due to the discrete resolution. 7.Applications 7.1.Financial Incentives for Exercise Charness and Gneezy (2009) were interested in whether ﬁnancial incentives caused college students to”
Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (2018, neutral): “…shows M-Pasandaz participation rates and balances, separately by default status, for the six months of our study as well as the follow- 24 Charness and Gneezy (2009), Schaner (2016), and (Hussam et al. 2017) provide other examples of how short-run incentives can affect behavior even after…”
Key Factors Associated with Adherence to Physical Exercise in Patients with Chronic Diseases and Older Adults: An Umbrella Review (2021, background): “However, this harm to intrinsic motivation may be lower among previously inactive patients who lack intrinsic motivation to exercise [23].”
Persistence (2014, neutral): “Treatment effects persist after interventions end when people change habits, beliefs, future costs, or how the world interacts with them.”
Environmental Policy Theory Given Bounded Rationality and Other-regarding Preferences (2011, methodology): “Using experiments Charness and Gneezy (2008) perform a test of the effectiveness of different policy interventions to encourage the development of a good habit, such as going to the gym or quitting smoking.”
A User's Guide to Debiasing (2014, background): “When it comes to self‐control problems, incentives can motivate people to resist temptation, and thus can help them lose weight (Volpp et al., 2008), quit smoking (Volpp et al., 2009), and exercise more (Acland & Levy, 2013; Charness & Gneezy, 2009).”
Debiasing Decisions (2015, background): “Recalibrating incentives to reward healthy behavior improves diet (Schwartz et al., 2014), exercise (Charness & Gneezy, 2009), weight loss (John et al., 2011), medication adherence (Volpp et al., 2008), and smoking cessation (Volpp et al., 2009).”
Naiveté, Projection Bias, and Habit Formation in Gym Attendance (2015, neutral): “See for example, Valois, Dersharnais and Godin (1988), Dzewaltowski, Noble and Shaw (1990), Reynolds, Killen, Bryson, Maron, Taylor, Maccoby and Farquhar (1990), Godin, Valois and Lepage (1993), Godin (1994), but Charness and Gneezy (2009) is the first experimental evidence we are aware of.”
Between markets and hierarchies: The challenge of governing ecosystem services (2012, background): “Though scattered, the evidence gathered so far (Frey and Jegen, 2001; Fehr and Falk, 2002; Bowles, 2008; Charness and Gneezy, 2009; Lacetera and Macis, 2010) suggests that the behavioural outcomes of incentives are particularly dependent on three factors: the nature of motivations; the psychological”
The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor (2018, neutral): “Studies of incentives to exercise or lose weight generally find that initial short-run effects dwindle over time, especially when habits are interrupted by holiday breaks (Charness and Gneezy 2009; John et al. 2011; Acland and Levy 2015; Royer et al. 2012).”