Incentives to Exercise

Econometrica

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 909-931

  Charness, Gary ^a   Gneezy, Uri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Field experiment; Habit formation; Incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949120435     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA7416     Document Type: Review

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