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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okr-10986-222222021-04-23T14:04:07Z Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic Augurzky, Boris Bauer, Thomas K. Reichert, Arndt R. Schmidt, Christoph M. Tauchmann, Harald PHARMACY TREATMENT FLOW EATING DISORDERS TIME PHARMACISTS RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS PREVENTION MORBIDITY DATA COLLECTION HEALTH CARE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE EFFECTS HEALTH EPIDEMIC EATING HABITS MEASUREMENTS SCENARIO MEASURES ESTIMATORS LIFE EXPECTANCY PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN KNOWLEDGE DIETS DISEASES SCENARIOS LIFE PATIENTS TESTS EXPERIMENTS INTERVENTION SMOKING WEIGHT‐ LOSS NEGATIVE EFFECTS MIGRATION OBSERVATION INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS HAZARD MEDICAL CARE TUMOR INDICATORS RESEARCH SYMPTOMS MORTALITY FIELD EXPERIMENTS CANCER ENDOCRINOLOGY METHODS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DIAGNOSES WORKERS SCIENCE MASS VALIDITY LIFESTYLE AGE HEALTH EFFECTS MEDICINE HEALTH OUTCOMES EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES EXAMINATIONS MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS SPECIFICATION ERROR CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CHOLESTEROL SAMPLES MEASUREMENT SIZE WEIGHT‐LOSS SURVEYS THERAPY INSURANCE WEIGHT DENSITY OBESITY EXERCISE THEORY ESTIMATING DISEASE CLINICS EVALUATION ISOLATION DISABILITY REHABILITATION HEART DISEASE ESTIMATES WEIGHT LOSS WEIGHT REDUCTION SMOKING CESSATION STRATEGY EPIDEMIOLOGY CORONARY HEART DISEASE GASTROENTEROLOGY IMPLEMENTATION WEIGHTING SMOKING‐CESSATION 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 assigned to two treatment groups, which were promised different cash rewards contingent on the achievement of an individually assigned target weight, and to a control group. Successful participants were subsequently allocated to two treatment groups offered different monetary incentives for maintaining the previously achieved target weight and to a control group. This is the first experiment of this kind that finds sustainable effects of weight loss rewards on the body weight of the obese even 18 months after the rewards were removed. Additional incentives to maintain an achieved body weight improve the sustainability of weight loss only while are in place. 2015-07-17T19:50:17Z 2015-07-17T19:50:17Z 2015-06 Working Paper 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 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7339 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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PHARMACY TREATMENT FLOW EATING DISORDERS TIME PHARMACISTS RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS PREVENTION MORBIDITY DATA COLLECTION HEALTH CARE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE EFFECTS HEALTH EPIDEMIC EATING HABITS MEASUREMENTS SCENARIO MEASURES ESTIMATORS LIFE EXPECTANCY PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN KNOWLEDGE DIETS DISEASES SCENARIOS LIFE PATIENTS TESTS EXPERIMENTS INTERVENTION SMOKING WEIGHT‐ LOSS NEGATIVE EFFECTS MIGRATION OBSERVATION INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS HAZARD MEDICAL CARE TUMOR INDICATORS RESEARCH SYMPTOMS MORTALITY FIELD EXPERIMENTS CANCER ENDOCRINOLOGY METHODS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DIAGNOSES WORKERS SCIENCE MASS VALIDITY LIFESTYLE AGE HEALTH EFFECTS MEDICINE HEALTH OUTCOMES EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES EXAMINATIONS MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS SPECIFICATION ERROR CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CHOLESTEROL SAMPLES MEASUREMENT SIZE WEIGHT‐LOSS SURVEYS THERAPY INSURANCE WEIGHT DENSITY OBESITY EXERCISE THEORY ESTIMATING DISEASE CLINICS EVALUATION ISOLATION DISABILITY REHABILITATION HEART DISEASE ESTIMATES WEIGHT LOSS WEIGHT REDUCTION SMOKING CESSATION STRATEGY EPIDEMIOLOGY CORONARY HEART DISEASE GASTROENTEROLOGY IMPLEMENTATION WEIGHTING SMOKING‐CESSATION |
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PHARMACY TREATMENT FLOW EATING DISORDERS TIME PHARMACISTS RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS PREVENTION MORBIDITY DATA COLLECTION HEALTH CARE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE EFFECTS HEALTH EPIDEMIC EATING HABITS MEASUREMENTS SCENARIO MEASURES ESTIMATORS LIFE EXPECTANCY PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN KNOWLEDGE DIETS DISEASES SCENARIOS LIFE PATIENTS TESTS EXPERIMENTS INTERVENTION SMOKING WEIGHT‐ LOSS NEGATIVE EFFECTS MIGRATION OBSERVATION INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS HAZARD MEDICAL CARE TUMOR INDICATORS RESEARCH SYMPTOMS MORTALITY FIELD EXPERIMENTS CANCER ENDOCRINOLOGY METHODS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DIAGNOSES WORKERS SCIENCE MASS VALIDITY LIFESTYLE AGE HEALTH EFFECTS MEDICINE HEALTH OUTCOMES EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES EXAMINATIONS MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS SPECIFICATION ERROR CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CHOLESTEROL SAMPLES MEASUREMENT SIZE WEIGHT‐LOSS SURVEYS THERAPY INSURANCE WEIGHT DENSITY OBESITY EXERCISE THEORY ESTIMATING DISEASE CLINICS EVALUATION ISOLATION DISABILITY REHABILITATION HEART DISEASE ESTIMATES WEIGHT LOSS WEIGHT REDUCTION SMOKING CESSATION STRATEGY EPIDEMIOLOGY CORONARY HEART DISEASE GASTROENTEROLOGY IMPLEMENTATION WEIGHTING SMOKING‐CESSATION Augurzky, Boris Bauer, Thomas K. Reichert, Arndt R. Schmidt, Christoph M. Tauchmann, Harald Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7339 |
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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 assigned to two
treatment groups, which were promised different cash rewards
contingent on the achievement of an individually assigned
target weight, and to a control group. Successful
participants were subsequently allocated to two treatment
groups offered different monetary incentives for maintaining
the previously achieved target weight and to a control
group. This is the first experiment of this kind that finds
sustainable effects of weight loss rewards on the body
weight of the obese even 18 months after the rewards were
removed. Additional incentives to maintain an achieved body
weight improve the sustainability of weight loss only while
are in place. |
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Working Paper |
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Augurzky, Boris Bauer, Thomas K. Reichert, Arndt R. Schmidt, Christoph M. Tauchmann, Harald |
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Augurzky, Boris Bauer, Thomas K. Reichert, Arndt R. Schmidt, Christoph M. Tauchmann, Harald |
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Augurzky, Boris |
| title |
Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic |
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Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic |
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Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic |
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Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic |
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Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic |
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small cash rewards for big losers : experimental insights into the fight against the obesity epidemic |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2015 |
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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 |
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