CAREER: Using Information and Incentives to Promote Human Capital

职业：利用信息和激励来提升人力资本

• 批准号: 1847087
• 负责人: Rebecca Dizon-Ross
• 金额: $ 47.51万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1847087&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Using; Information; Incentives; Promote

This CAREER project studies how to use information and incentives to increase investment in health and education among disadvantaged populations. It develops a method based on the idea that better information and appropriate rewards will result in better decisions about health and education investments. This model is then used to study the effectiveness of policies to induce diabetic patients to exercise, policies to reduce opioid addiction, and to study choices parents make regarding whether to invest more in their gifted child's education or invest equally in all their children's education when resources are tight. The results of this research will be applicable to several important policy questions, including reducing the diabetes epidemic; addressing the opioid epidemic in the US; and improving educational investments in the US and around the world. The methods developed in this project will be used by other researchers to study other policy issues. The results could contribute to the wellbeing of US citizens, especially among the poor and people around the world.This CAREER research uses four projects to develop new insights about incentive design and tests them in the context of healthy behaviors and investment in education. The first project conducts a follow-up RCT on an earlier project to test whether personalizing incentive contracts improves efficacy. The second project conducts an RCT to evaluate two incentive schemes: incentivizing ``inputs" and incentivizing ``outcome" of abstinence. The third conducts a field experiment to identify parental preferences by exogenously vary returns to investing in their children's education, allowing PI to quantify the weights parents place on maximizing the returns to investment (total household earnings), equalizing their children's outcomes (individual earnings), and equalizing the inputs given to each child. Project 4 uses an RCT design to test whether knowledge that children will be ineligible to receive SSI when they turn 18 will induce them to invest more in education. The results of this research project will significantly contribute to economists' knowledge of how best to design incentive schemes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

职业发展项目研究如何利用信息和奖励措施，增加对弱势群体的保健和教育投资。它开发了一种方法，其基础是更好的信息和适当的奖励将导致更好的卫生和教育投资决策。然后，利用该模型研究诱导糖尿病患者运动的政策、减少阿片类药物成瘾的政策的有效性，以及在资源紧张的情况下，父母对资优孩子的教育投入更多还是平等地投入所有孩子的教育的选择。这项研究的结果将适用于几个重要的政策问题，包括减少糖尿病的流行；解决美国的阿片类药物流行问题；改善美国和世界各地的教育投资。在这个项目中开发的方法将被其他研究人员用于研究其他政策问题。研究结果可能有助于美国公民，尤其是穷人和世界各地人民的福祉。这项CAREER研究使用了四个项目来开发关于激励设计的新见解，并在健康行为和教育投资的背景下对它们进行了测试。第一个项目对早期项目进行后续随机对照试验，以检验个性化激励合同是否能提高效率。第二个项目通过随机对照试验来评估两种激励方案：激励禁欲的“投入”和激励禁欲的“结果”。第三项研究进行了实地实验，通过外生变化的回报来确定父母对子女教育的投资偏好，允许PI量化父母对投资回报最大化的权重（家庭总收入），平衡孩子的结果（个人收入），以及平衡给予每个孩子的投入。项目4采用随机对照试验设计来测试儿童在18岁时将没有资格获得社会保障援助的知识是否会促使他们在教育上投入更多。这一研究项目的结果将大大有助于经济学家了解如何最好地设计激励方案。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。