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

dc.rights.licenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional*
dc.contributor.authorBernatzky, Marianne
dc.contributor.authorCabrera, José María
dc.contributor.authorCid, Alejandro
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-22T19:18:12Z
dc.date.available2022-04-22T19:18:12Z
dc.date.issued2015es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1344
dc.description.abstractWe 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.extent22 p.es
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dc.languageenges
dc.publisherUniversidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economíaes
dc.relation.ispartofDocumentos de trabajo del Departamento de Economíaes
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dc.subjectRandomized triales
dc.subjectExercisees
dc.subjectHealthy habitses
dc.subjectText messagees
dc.titleRegular information and health: evidence from a field experiment with undergraduate studentses
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
dc.contributor.filiacionBernatzky, Marianne. Universidad de Montevideoes
dc.contributor.filiacionCabrera, José María. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguayes
dc.contributor.filiacionCid, Alejandro. Universidad de Montevideo. Uruguayes
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