Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation
We designed and tested a voluntary commitment product to help smokers quit smoking. The product (CARES) offered smokers a savings account in which they deposit funds for six months, after which they take a urine test for nicotine and cotinine. If they pass, their money is returned; otherwise, their...
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okr-10986-57792021-04-23T14:02:23Z Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation Gine, Xavier Karlan, Dean Zinman, Jonathan Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120 Health Production I120 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 We designed and tested a voluntary commitment product to help smokers quit smoking. The product (CARES) offered smokers a savings account in which they deposit funds for six months, after which they take a urine test for nicotine and cotinine. If they pass, their money is returned; otherwise, their money is forfeited to charity. Of smokers offered CARES, 11 percent took up, and smokers randomly offered CARES were 3 percentage points more likely to pass the 6-month test than the control group. More importantly, this effect persisted in surprise tests at 12 months, indicating that CARES produced lasting smoking cessation. 2012-03-30T07:34:30Z 2012-03-30T07:34:30Z 2010 Journal Article American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 19457782 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5779 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article |
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We designed and tested a voluntary commitment product to help smokers quit smoking. The product (CARES) offered smokers a savings account in which they deposit funds for six months, after which they take a urine test for nicotine and cotinine. If they pass, their money is returned; otherwise, their money is forfeited to charity. Of smokers offered CARES, 11 percent took up, and smokers randomly offered CARES were 3 percentage points more likely to pass the 6-month test than the control group. More importantly, this effect persisted in surprise tests at 12 months, indicating that CARES produced lasting smoking cessation. |
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Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation |
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