Scaling for Economists: Lessons from the Non-Adherence Problem in the Medical Literature
| Autor: | Omar Al-Ubaydli, Dana L. Suskind, John A. List, Danielle LoRe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Research design
Economics and Econometrics Process (engineering) Energy (esotericism) media_common.quotation_subject Energy Engineering and Power Technology Management Science and Operations Research Medication Adherence 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Optimism Patient Education as Topic Reward Intervention (counseling) 0502 economics and business Economics Humans 030212 general & internal medicine 050207 economics media_common Motivation Public economics Economics Behavioral Mechanical Engineering 05 social sciences Work (electrical) Research Design Scale (social sciences) Patient Compliance Smartphone Medical literature |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Perspectives. 31:125-144 |
| ISSN: | 0895-3309 |
| Popis: | Economists often conduct experiments that demonstrate the benefits to individuals of modifying their behavior, such as using a new production process at work or investing in energy saving technologies. A common occurrence is for the success of the intervention in these small-scale studies to diminish substantially when applied at a larger scale, severely undermining the optimism advertised in the original research studies. One key contributor to the lack of general success is that the change that has been demonstrated to be beneficial is not adopted to the extent that would be optimal. This problem is isomorphic to the problem of patient non-adherence to medications that are known to be effective. The large medical literature on countermeasures furnishes economists with potential remedies to this manifestation of the scaling problem. |
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