Anchor Management: A Field Experiment to Encourage Families to Meet Critical Programme Deadlines

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Brief Overview

In a randomised trial with government partners, we find that an intervention informed by behavioral theories increased the number of families maintaining welfare program participation by 14 per cent.

Author

• Ryan T. Moore, American University