TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuffe,Harold E.
AU  - Harbaugh,William T.
AU  - Lindo,Jason M.
AU  - Musto,Giancarlo
AU  - Waddell,Glen R.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - October 2011; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the impact of the prizes by comparing behavior during prize periods with behavior during non-prize periods. Variation in the timing of prize periods across different schools allows us to estimate models with calendar-date fixed effects to control for day-specific attributes, such as weather and proximity to holidays. On average, we find that being in a prize period increases riding behavior by sixteen percent, a large impact given that the prize value is just six cents per participating student. We also find that winning a prize lottery has a positive impact on ridership over subsequent weeks; consider heterogeneity across prize type, gender, age, and calendar month; and explore differential effects on the intensive versus extensive margins
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w17478
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17478
ER  -