Database of Behavioral Economics Interventions
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Offering lentils in immunization camps increased child vaccination by 11%
Immunization camps are places where children are provided with shots of vaccines.
In order to make parents in rural parts of India come to a free immunization camp and get their children immunized, ...
Reminders increased applications for Child Support Order Modifications
Incarcerated parents have limited ability to make payments which can lead to child support debt. These parents have an option to apply for a reduction of these payments, however less than a third applied ...
Helping soldiers identify their intrinsic purpose for learning resulted in 91.5% of them passing their course
Students that are engaged with learning because of extrinsic motivators are more likely to drop out of the course. BIT worked with the British Army to understand such group, since soldiers are required to ...
Providing people with job information increased women’s employment rate in India
People in India believe that there are few economic benefits from educating girls and this leads parents to pull girls out of school. Information and recruiting sessions were held by recruiters in selected villages. ...
Improving prosocial behavior by employing group attachment and formal position
Researchers decided to explore the role of group attachment and formal position on prosocial behavior
They conducted experiments with a random sample of members of 50 different farmer cooperatives in rural Uganda in ...
Changing the payment structure of conditional cash transfer programs increased academic participation
Researchers set out to examine the effect of variations on the design of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs on academic participation.
They carried out a randomized experiment which consisted of a standard approach ...
Using weekly text reminders to improve patients adherence to treatment
Researchers wanted to test the efficacy of short message service (SMS) reminders on adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among patients attending a rural clinic in Kenya.
They used four SMS reminder interventions with ...
Using electronic voting technology enfranchised the less educated, poorer voters
The researcher decided to study the effect of the electronic voting technology in Brazilian elections on the political participation of less-educated (poorer) voters and redistribution policies targeting them.
In 1998, electronic voting technology ...
Lowering borrowers´ high-cost debts by manipulating information disclosure
Researchers wanted to examine whether information disclosure could induce borrowers to lower their use of high-cost debt at payday stores.
They used three information treatment conditions:
- Treatment 1 compared the APR (annual ...
Influencing poor peoples’ aspirations and future-oriented behavior by showing them successful peers
Researchers wanted to better understand why poor people often do not make investments, even when the returns are high and there are no market failures or constraining social structures. They hypothesized that it might ...