Regular information and health: evidence from a field experiment with undergraduate students

Bernatzky, Marianne; Cabrera, José María; Cid, Alejandro

dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.contributor.author	Bernatzky, Marianne
dc.contributor.author	Cabrera, José María
dc.contributor.author	Cid, Alejandro
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-22T19:18:12Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-22T19:18:12Z
dc.date.issued	2015	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1344
dc.description.abstract	We run a randomized controlled trial with the aim of evaluating the effects of a health seminarcomplemented with weekly reminders on health outcomes. Our research design exploits the excess of applicants over the intervention capacity. In this 4-month interventionwith undergraduate students, we provide information on preventive behaviors and healthy habits and on how to modify personal behaviors that could derive in chronical illnesses. We find that all students whowere subject to the treatment improved theirknowledgerelative to the controlgroup. But they were not able to translate itintohealthier behaviors, neither self-reported nor objectively measured by a physician.We hypothesize that high discount rates, overconfidenceand the lack of complementary inputs may explain our findings.	es
dc.format.extent	22 p.	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	es
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Documentos de trabajo del Departamento de Economía	es
dc.rights	Abierto	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Randomized trial	es
dc.subject	Exercise	es
dc.subject	Healthy habits	es
dc.subject	Text message	es
dc.title	Regular information and health: evidence from a field experiment with undergraduate students	es
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Bernatzky, Marianne. Universidad de Montevideo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Cabrera, José María. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Cid, Alejandro. Universidad de Montevideo. Uruguay	es
dc.type.version	Publicada	es