A carrot not a stick

A little carrot and a big stick--OSD beds down.

A Carrot and Stick Approach to Agenda-Setting∗

This paper models a legislature in which the same agenda setter serves for two periods, showing how he can exploit a legislature (completely) in the first period by promising future benefits to legislators who support him. In equilibrium, a large majority of legislators vote for the firstperiod proposal because they thereby maintain the chance of belonging to the minimum winning coalition in th...

A Carrot & Stick Intervention for Medication Adherence using Mobile Phone

Medication adherence is one of the major challenges for healthcare professionals and patients. Lack of medication adherence leads to worse medical treatment outcomes, higher hospitalization rates, and increased health care costs. For years, numerous interventions have been tried with mixed success. In this paper, we present an intervention for medication adherence based on rewards and punishmen...

Hunger: The carrot and the stick

Figure 1: Regulation of food intake by negative valence and positive valence appetitive systems, visceral aversive pathways, and the relationship with homeostatic deficit. Negative valence appetitive systems (e.g., AGRP neurons) are under homeostatic control, but AGRP neurons are rapidly inhibited by cues that predict food, thus consumption is associated with the positive valence system. Positi...

PCRTA serendipitous carrot masquerading as stick?

PARTY LINE: (Fenny Green & Nigel Mathers) High quality primary care research is undertaken in the practice setting, and the RCGP’s Research Group wishes to promote and encourage this. It evolved from the RCGP Research General Practice Awards. These were developed to demonstrate the need to make research infrastructure funding available to research -active practices to support the high quality r...