Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Social and moral norms reduced neglecting to report gifts by public servants in Mexico
Researchers aimed to change public servants’ behavior related to the gifts they get and the truthfulness of the reports that they are required by law to provide.
Thus, public servants were sent 5 ...
Improving teachers‘ performance through monitoring and financial incentives
In India, researchers made an experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and improve teaching.
In treatment schools, teachers' attendance was monitored daily using ...
Using financial incentives led to increased use and quality of several crucial maternal and child health care
The Rwandan Government decided to implement a national payment for performance (P4P) scheme to supplement primary health centers’ input-based budgets.
These schemes provided financial incentives to healthcare providers for improvements in utilization and quality of ...
Monitoring nurses‘ presence in work led to lower absenteeism
The government took steps to punish the worst delinquents – they used the attendance data with a specific schedule of fines and punishments (introduced expressly for the program) to determine the wages of a ...
In-kind incentives improved health worker performance
In El Salvador, researchers evaluated the effects of in-kind team incentives, to be used by the entire team, on health worker performance.
38 out of 75 community health teams were randomly assigned to ...
Posters that made career advancement opportunities salient improved the quality of recruitment and performance of workers
A study in Zambia examined how career incentives affect who gets selected into public health jobs and, through selection, their performance while in service.
Researchers designed two recruitment posters for applicants to be exposed ...
Receiving reminders with a note increased clients‘ savings by 16%.
In the Philippines, Bolivia, and Peru, an experiment was made to test if reminders can increase saving by making these future expenses more salient.
Clients who got a generic reminder (“don’t forget your deposit ...
Being listed first on a ballot increased a candidate’s odds of winning by 2,5%
Psychological theories of choice suggest that, under some specific circumstances, voters may be influenced by the order in which candidates' names appear on the ballot, biasing people toward candidates listed early (when voters can ...
Women who signed a physical activity contract were more likely to achieve their goals
This experiment’s purpose was to investigate the effect of a physical activity contract on adherence to a walking program in postmenopausal African American women (in order to decrease the incidence of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and ...
Switching default choice increased enrollment of employees to participate in savings behavior to over 85%
In this study, researchers analyzed the 401(k) savings behavior of employees in a large U. S. corporation before and after an interesting change in the company 401(k) plan. Before the plan change, employees were ...