Green incentives are included in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” (ARRA). It is, however, unclear how these government incentives can be carried out most effectively according to market-based principles and if they can serve as a catalyst for an accelerated green transformation and an ultimate solution to the current U.S. and global economic and financial crisis. The article...

Online labor platforms, such as the Amazon Mechanical Turk, provide an effective framework for eliciting responses to judgment tasks. Previous work has shown that workers respond best to financial incentives, especially to extra bonuses. However, most of the tested incentives involve describing the bonus conditions in formulas instead of plain English. We believe that different incentives given...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to a) assess acceptability of personal financial incentives to socially disadvantaged smokers and non-smokers; b) examine factors associated with acceptability; and c) examine preferred levels of incentive amounts. METHODS A cross-sectional touch screen computer survey was conducted between February and October 2010 in New South Wales, Australia. Participants were c...

Medication adherence, or adhering to prescribed medications, is one of the most important goals in healthcare. The adherence level for chronic conditions has been observed to be about 50%. Many different interventions have been used to improve medication adherence. In this paper, we focus on financial incentives as the intervention for improving medication adherence. Financial incentives could ...

BACKGROUND Health insurers worldwide implement financial incentive schemes to encourage health-related behaviours, including to facilitate weight loss. The maintenance of weight loss is a public health challenge, and as non-communicable diseases become more prevalent with increasing age, mid-older adults could benefit from programs which motivate weight loss maintenance. However, little is unde...

BACKGROUND Various interventions have been tested to achieve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients with psychotic disorders, and there is no consistent evidence for the effectiveness of any established intervention. The effectiveness of financial incentives in improving adherence to a range of treatments has been demonstrated; no randomised controlled trial...

PURPOSE To compare the effectiveness of different combinations of social comparison feedback and financial incentives to increase physical activity. DESIGN Randomized trial (Clinicaltrials.gov number, NCT02030080). SETTING Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred eighty-six adults. INTERVENTIONS Twenty-six weeks of weekly feedback on team performance compared to the 50th per...

Background: Pay-for-performance programs often rely on claims and other administrative data sources, but it is not clear whether these data accurately reflect information contained in patients’ medical records. To evaluate the impact of using administrative data on the calculation of financial incentives in a study of pay for performance, we compared the calculation of financial incentives base...

The use of financial incentives to change health-related behaviour is often opposed by members of the public. We investigated whether the acceptability of incentives is influenced by their effectiveness, the form the incentive takes, and the particular behaviour targeted. We conducted discrete choice experiments, in 2010 with two samples (n = 81 and n = 101) from a self-selected online panel, a...

Identifying and measuring the impact of public support to industry is a difficult task. Recent OECD studies analyse transfers to industrial firms which are categorised in two groups: the first consisting of money transfers (for R&D and innovation contracts, and for procurement of innovated products and processes); the second of financial incentives (regular grants, reimbursable grants, interest...