Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Simplified accounting training proved to be more effective than standard training.
Micro-entrepreneurs are often not educated enough to make financial decisions.
A bank in the Dominican Republic randomized 1193 micro-entrepreneurs who had indicated an interest in accounting training into two conditions: the experimental condition received ...
Providing information about job opportunities increased employment among Indian women.
The business process outsourcing (BPO) sector in India has been growing, creating multiple job opportunities for women. However, women often get married and have children instead of pursuing a career.
160 villages with low ...
Reminders and rewards reduced procrastination among loan officers in Colombia.
Procrastination in the workplace often leads to low employee performance.
61 branches of a bank in Colombia were randomly assigned to a treatment and a control condition. Loan officers in the treatment condition were ...
Behaviorally-designed reminders increased response rates.
People often do not respond to online or written communications.
HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) randomly assigned people who had not paid their fines to intervention conditions: In the standard condition, the recipients ...
A possibility of financial incentives increased adherence to medication schedule.
Millions of patients do not take their blood-thinning medication on time, putting themselves at risk.
Ten patients at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Anticoagulation Management Center were reminded once a day to ...
Simplification increased applications for direct access to drinking water in Morocco.
In 2017, a program launched by a utility company aiming to increase direct household access to piped water offered interest-free loans for the cost of the water connection to be repaid within three to ...
Envelopes personalized with photographs led to higher savings.
146 laborers in rural India were visited by a financial planner who helped them set savings goals. The earmarked money-saving goal was set at either 40 or 80 rupees per week. At the end ...
Checklists and promoting safety culture decreased catheter-related bloodstream infections.
108 intensive care units mostly in Michigan implemented multiple methods to reduce the prevalence of catheter-related bloodstream infections. Firstly, they used daily goals sheets to improve communication between clinicians and followed a unit-based safety ...
Planning prompts increased compliance with colonoscopy checks.
Thousands of lives could be saved yearly if people complied with recommended colonoscopy exams.
Almost 12 thousand US employees due for a colonoscopy were randomly assigned to planning and a control group. Both groups ...
Financial aid reduced dropout rates and increased school performance.
Researchers tested whether conditional and unconditional cash transfers (CCTs and UCTs, respectively) are more efficient in preventing school dropouts. The former is only received by households that meet certain conditions and the latter is ...