Objective The use of financial incentives to promote physical activity (PA) has grown in
popularity due in part to technological advances that make it easier to track and reward PA …

Background Healthy diet, weight control and physical activity to reduce obesity can be
motivated by financial incentives (FI). Behavioral-economic approaches may improve the …

Can financial incentives aid habit formation in people attempting to establish a positive
health behavior? We provide evidence on this question from a randomized controlled trial of …

We study habit formation in annual biometric health screenings using a field experiment that
randomly assigned financial incentives to 4,799 employees over three years. Completing …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization has identified physical inactivity as the
fourth leading risk factor for global mortality. People often intend to engage in physical …

The current paper clarifies the conditions under which deposit contracts are sufficient to
motivate people to perform daily breathing exercises using a smartphone app. Our analysis …

Background Government interest in investing in commercial physical activity apps has
increased with little evidence of their cost-effectiveness. This is the first study to our …

Incentives are used to improve many health-related behaviors, but evidence is mixed for
their effectiveness both during the incentivization period and, even more so, on the …

We conduct a field experiment to better understand the role of social status with and without
monetary incentives as motivation to increase physical activity. We find that social status …

Background Mobile health applications (mHealth apps) targeting physical inactivity have
increased in popularity yet are usually limited by low engagement. This study examined the …