Deadline- April 17, 2013
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & Donaghue Foundations are seeking proposals for Behavioral economics to perplexing health and health care challenges. The goal of inviting this proposal is to increase the number of behavioral economists addressing health and health care issues.
This initiative is co-funded by the Robert Wood Johnson and Donaghue Foundations to make approximately five awards of up to $200,000 each under this call for proposals.
By recognizing that individual decision-making systematically deviates from traditional economic models that typically presume people behave rationally, behavioral economics offers insights not offered by the models of conventional economics. This more nuanced view of human behavior likely provides a more realistic framework for interventions.
Proposals include-
- experiments that vary the frame or structure of information or messaging to patients or providers in a way that might reduce the use of clinical services of low or questionable value
- experiments that reflect or modify social connections or norms that might reduce the use of these services
- experiments that use choice architecture or financial incentives informed by techniques of behavioral economics to reduce the use of these services
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Proposals from a range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, behavioral economics, decision theory, economics, public health, sociology, psychology, marketing, nursing and medicine are encouraged.
- Preference will be given to applicants who are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a).
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