Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic
This paper examines the sustainability of weight loss achieved through cash rewards and, for the first time, the potential of monetary incentives to prevent weight cycling. In a three period randomized controlled trial, about 700 obese persons were...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24711408/small-cash-rewards-big-losers-experimental-insights-fight-against-obesity-epidemic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22222 |