Lessons from Behavioral Economics to Improve Treatment Adherence in Parenting Programs: An Application to SMS
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
November 2019
Subject
Mobile Phone System;
Child Development;
Behavioral Economics;
Parenting Intervention
JEL code
I38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs;
D91 - Intertemporal Household Choice • Life Cycle Models and Saving;
J38 - Public Policy;
I15 - Health and Economic Development;
D90 - Intertemporal Choice: General
Category
Technical Notes
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.
