Muhammad Zia Hydari,Idris Adjerid,Aaron D Striegel
Muhammad Zia Hydari
Health wearables in combination with gamification enable interventions that have the potential to increase physical activity-a key determinant of health. However, the extant literature does not provide conclusive evidence on the benefits of...
Conservatism Gets Funded? A Field Experiment on the Role of Negative Information in Novel Project Evaluation [0.03%]
保守派也能获得资助吗？新颖项目评审中负面信息作用的田野实验
Jacqueline N Lanei,Misha Teplitskiy,Gary Gray et al.
Jacqueline N Lanei et al.
The evaluation and selection of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet there are persistent concerns about bias, such as conservatism. This paper investigates the role that the format of evaluat...
Team Relationships and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks [0.03%]
团队关系与绩效：来自医疗服务转诊网络的证据
Leila Agha,Keith Marzilli Ericson,Kimberley H Geissler et al.
Leila Agha et al.
We examine the teams that emerge when a primary care physician (PCP) refers patients to specialists. When PCPs concentrate their specialist referrals-for instance, by sending their cardiology patients to fewer distinct cardiologists-repeat ...
Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Tradeoff between Flexibility and Routinization [0.03%]
利用激励培养运动习惯：灵活性与常规化的权衡关系研究
John Beshears,Hae Nim Lee,Katherine L Milkman et al.
John Beshears et al.
Habits involve regular, cue-triggered routines. In a field experiment, we tested whether incentivizing exercise routines-paying participants each time they visit the gym within a planned, daily two-hour window-leads to more persistent exerc...
The Impact of E-Visits on Visit Frequencies and Patient Health: Evidence from Primary Care [0.03%]
电子访问对访问频率和患者健康的影响：来自初级保健的证据
Hessam Bavafa,Lorin M Hitt,Christian Terwiesch
Hessam Bavafa
Secure messaging, or "e-visits," between patients and providers has sharply increased in recent years, and many hope they will help improve healthcare quality, while increasing provider capacity. Using a panel data set from a large healthca...
Dynamic Learning of Patient Response Types: An Application to Treating Chronic Diseases [0.03%]
患者反应类型动态学习：治疗慢性病的一项应用研究
Diana M Negoescu,Kostas Bimpikis,Margaret L Brandeau et al.
Diana M Negoescu et al.
Currently available medication for treating many chronic diseases is often effective only for a subgroup of patients, and biomarkers accurately assessing whether an individual belongs to this subgroup typically do not exist. In such setting...
Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance, Novelty, and Resource Allocation in Science [0.03%]
兼收并蓄与革故鼎新：科学知识利用与创新研究
Kevin J Boudreau,Eva C Guinan,Karim R Lakhani et al.
Kevin J Boudreau et al.
Selecting among alternative projects is a core management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowle...
Keith Gamble,Patricia Boyle,Lei Yu et al.
Keith Gamble et al.
This study examines how cognitive changes associated with aging impact the financial decision making capability of older Americans. We find that a decrease in cognition is associated with a decrease in financial literacy. Decreases in episo...
Holding the Hunger Games Hostage at the Gym: An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling [0.03%]
劫持《饥饿游戏》占领体育馆——对诱惑捆绑策略的评估
Katherine L Milkman,Julia A Minson,Kevin G M Volpp
Katherine L Milkman
We introduce and evaluate the effectiveness of temptation bundling-a method for simultaneously tackling two types of self-control problems by harnessing consumption complementarities. We describe a field experiment measuring the impact of b...