Do Financial Incentives Help Obese People to Achieve and to Maintain a Target Weight?.

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Imprint:	[Place of publication not identified] : Latest Thinking, [date of publication not identified]
Description:	1 online resource (10 minutes)
Language:	English
Subject:	Employee fringe benefits. Employee fringe benefits
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13704292

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Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Title from resource description page (viewed August 24, 2020).
Summary:	By means of a field experiment, the research presented in this video tested the effects of financial incentives on the dieting behavior of obese people. As CHRISTOPH M. SCHMIDT explains, patients leaving rehabilitation clinics have been selected for the study and were given different treatments to help them achieve their target weight. It shows that those patients who received a financial incentive were more successful in sustaining healthy behavior in the short term, with the effect weakening over time. These insights contribute to the question of the role financial incentives can play in encouraging healthy behavior.

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