“We thought it might encourage participation.” Using lottery incentives to improve LibQUAL+™ response rates among students

Randomized trial of lottery-based incentives to improve warfarin adherence.

BACKGROUND Poor adherence to medications is a major cause of morbidity and inadequate drug effectiveness. Efforts to improve adherence have typically been either ineffective or too complex to implement in clinical practice. Lottery-based incentive interventions could be a scalable approach to improving adherence. METHODS This was a randomized, controlled clinical trial of a daily lottery-base...

Tax Incentives to Encourage

Much has been said about the importance of innovation, especially after the rise of globalization and implementation of more open markets. In this paper, we will show how innovation is linked to schools of thoughts that sought to explain and understand what would lead nations to reach a certain degree of long-term development, since the model of Joseph Schumpeter in the mid-1930s until Romer’s ...

Lottery incentives did not improve response rate to a mailed survey: a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVES Our study aimed to examine the effect of an instant lottery ticket incentive on the response rate to a mailed questionnaire in a population of trauma patients. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING A randomized controlled trial at a major trauma center with 728 patients randomized into 2 groups prior to mailing of a questionnaire. One group of patients (Group A) had a sentence inserted into the...

Why the Market Did Not Encourage It and How It Might Be Made to Do So

PREFACE The purpose of this report is to explore the economics of vehicle safety, an area heretofore apparently neglected by economists. In addition, the report suggests fruitful research areas for the NHSB that could contribute to providing greater economic incentives for vehicle safety. Wolf for their helpful comments and criticisms.-ii-SUMMARY This report examines four topics: the relative m...

The Effect of Low-cost Incentives on Active Transportation to School Rates among Elementary School Students