Optimal combination of requirement and reward in financial incentive programs for weight loss

IF 0.9 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

Theory and Decision Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI:10.1007/s11238-024-09988-6

Yves Arrighi, Fahariat Boukari, David Crainich

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Abstract

The paper analyzes how programs offering financial rewards for losing weight should be adapted to individuals’ preferences. Specifically, we highlight the conditions under which demanding and highly remunerative programs or—conversely—easily achievable but less remunerative programs should be proposed. We show that financial incentives are more likely to encourage efforts to lose weight if the level of difficulty of the objective and the reward in case of success increase with: 1) the degree of risk seeking; 2) the degree of cross-prudence in quality of life. This suggests that individuals should be offered a weight loss program tailored to their preferences towards risk and correlation.

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减肥经济激励计划中要求与奖励的最佳组合

本文分析了提供经济奖励的减肥计划应如何适应个人偏好。具体来说，我们强调了在哪些条件下应该提出要求高、报酬高的方案，或者在哪些条件下应该提出容易实现但报酬较低的方案。我们的研究表明，如果目标的难度和成功后的奖励随着以下因素的增加而增加，那么经济激励措施就更有可能鼓励人们努力减肥：1）寻求风险的程度；2）生活质量的交叉谨慎程度。这表明，应根据个人对风险和相关性的偏好为其量身定制减肥计划。

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期刊介绍： The field of decision has been investigated from many sides. However, research programs relevant to decision making in psychology, management science, economics, the theory of games, statistics, operations research, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and analytical philosophy have remained separate. Theory and Decision is devoted to all aspects of decision making belonging to such programs, but addresses also possible cross-fertilizations between these disciplines which would represent effective advances in knowledge. The purpose of the journal is to let the engineering of choice gradually emerge both for individual and for collective decision making. Formalized treatments will be favoured, to the extent that they provide new insights into the issues raised and an appropriate modeling of the situation considered. Due to its growing importance, expermentation in decision making as well as its links to the cognitive sciences will be granted special attention by Theory and Decision. Of particular interest are: Preference and belief modeling, Experimental decision making under risk or under uncertainty, Decision analysis, multicriteria decision modeling, Game theory, negotiation theory, collective decision making, social choice, Rationality, cognitive processes and interactive decision making, Methodology of the decision sciences. Applications to various problems in management and organization science, economics and finance, computer-supported decision schemes, will be welcome as long as they bear on sufficiently general cases. Analysis of actual decision making processes are also relevant topics for the journal, whether pertaining to individual, collective or negotiatory approaches; to private decisions or public policies; to operations or to strategic choices. Officially cited as: Theory Decis