Lessons from Behavioral Economics to Improve Treatment Adherence in Parenting Programs: An Application to SMS

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Date issued
Nov 2019
A growing literature shows how insights from behavioral economics can be successfully adopted in simple interventions through SMS or other types of low-cost communications. In this short, note we provide concrete basic guidelines to design behaviorally informed messages, based on theory and our own experience. We provide examples applied to parenting interventions.