Healthcare appointments as commitment devices
We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard commitm...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2024
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