Incentive design to boost health for juveniles with Medicaid coverage: Evidence from a field experiment
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Incentives; Obesity; Medicaid; Adolescents; BMI; Field experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I0 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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