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Comments on contingency management and conditional cash transfers
Author(s) -
Higgins Stephen T.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
health economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1099-1050
pISSN - 1057-9230
DOI - 10.1002/hec.1543
Subject(s) - incentive , contingency , contingency management , behavioral economics , cash , point (geometry) , economics , behavioural economics , psychological intervention , conceptual framework , positive economics , cash flow , core (optical fiber) , field (mathematics) , public economics , microeconomics , psychology , sociology , epistemology , computer science , accounting , finance , social science , intervention (counseling) , philosophy , telecommunications , geometry , mathematics , psychiatry , pure mathematics
This essay discusses research on incentive‐based interventions to promote healthy behavior change, contingency management (CM) and conditional cash transfers (CCT). The overarching point of the essay is that CM and CCT are often treated as distinct areas of inquiry when at their core they represent a common approach. Some potential bi‐directional benefits of recognizing this commonality are discussed. Distinct intellectual traditions probably account for the separate paths of CM and CCT to date, with the former being rooted in behavioral psychology and the latter in microeconomics. It is concluded that the emerging field of behavioral economics, which is informed by and integrates principles of each of those disciplines, may provide the proper conceptual framework for integrating CM and CCT. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.