Persistence: How Treatment Effects Persist After Interventions Stop

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 172-179

  Frey, Erin ^a   Rogers, Todd ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

habit; interventions; persistence; treatment effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979908218     PISSN: 23727322     EISSN: 23727330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2372732214550405     Document Type: Article

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