Title
Do Incentives Crowd Out Motivation? A Feasibility Study of a Community Vector-Control Campaign in Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2023
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Routledge
Abstract
Incentives are a useful tool in encouraging healthy behavior as part of public health initiatives. However, there remains concern about motivation crowd out—a decline in levels of motivation to undertake a behavior to below baseline levels after incentives have been removed—and few public health studies have assessed for motivation crowd out. Here, we assess the feasibility of identifying motivation crowd out following a lottery to promote participation in a Chagas disease vector control campaign. We look for evidence of crowd out in subsequent participation in the same behavior, a related behavior, and an unrelated behavior. We identified potential motivation crowd out for the same behavior, but not for related behavior or unrelated behaviors after lottery incentives are removed. Despite some limitations, we conclude that motivation crowd out is feasible to assess in large-scale trials of incentives.
Start page
53
End page
61
Volume
49
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología (incluye terapias de aprendizaje, habla, visual y otras discapacidades físicas y mentales) Economía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85120651539
PubMed ID
Source
Behavioral Medicine
ISSN of the container
08964289
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under grant R01 HD075869-05 and by the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under grant K01AI139284.
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