BACKGROUND To motivate people to lead a healthier life and to engage in disease prevention, explicit financial incentives, such as monetary rewards for attaining health-related targets (e.g. smoking cessation, weight loss or increased physical activity) or disincentives for reverting to unhealthy habits, are applied. A review focused on financial incentives for health promotion among older peop...

OBJECTIVES Using a large natural experiment among 39 employers, we examined the effect of adding financial incentives to workplace wellness programs. STUDY DESIGN The 39 study employers used the same national insurer to administer their wellness programs, allowing us to observe preventive and health-promoting behaviors before and after financial incentives were implemented. Fifteen treatment ...

Financial incentives of various kinds have been suggested to alleviate the chronic shortage of transplantable organs in the United States. This paper analyzes the possible consequences of financial incentives on organ supply. We show that under current practice and current law (which are not the same), inducements to donate organs or to register as an organ donor may lead to a decline in the su...

The present paper delineates an explanatory framework for the defining factors of incentives, both financial and nonfinancial, through theory human economic action that personality traits, which shape goals and, ultimately, social identity. It is ascertained three types variables affect incentives: basic conditions (cultural change, etc.), values needs (tradition, external values, etc.) dynamis...

This article analyses whether financial incentives to delay retirement affect the employment and wages of older workers, not just their behavior. We focus on outcomes France’s 2003 reform that offered pension bonus workers who postponed until legal age. An equilibrium search model is built in which both wage are endogenous, allowing us analyze role labor supply demand decision. Simulation...