A randomized, controlled trial of financial incentives for smoking cessation.

By K. Volpp, Andrea B. Troxel, Mark Pauly, Henry A. Glick, A. Puig, D. Asch, R. Galvin, Jingsan Zhu, F. Wan, Jill DeGuzman and 3 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2009

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Physiology

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In General Health Professions

1. David M. Cutler
2. Martin E. P. Seligman
3. John W. Payne
4. Jack B. Soll
5. Katherine L. Milkman
6. George Loewenstein
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2. Martin E. P. Seligman
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