Behavioral Economists Challenge Outcomes-Based Wellness Incentives

I’ve had to eat so much crow since I started posting on this blog, you’d think I would’ve acquired a taste for it by now. My latest sampling was served up courtesy of  behavioral economists and their connection, or lack thereof, to outcomes-based employee health incentives.

In one of my least popular posts ever, Be Afraid: Behavioral Economics and Outcomes-Based Wellness (May 2011), I criticized corporate benefits managers who, I argued, relied on the research of behavioral economists to Continue reading