| Accountability: |
requires people to report back on their performance or behavior |
| Aspirations/Goals/Expectations: |
helps people imagine the future and aspire to better outcomes |
| Commitment Devices: |
Provides some mechanism that helps people decide now what they must do in the future |
| Community Mobilization: |
Relies on communities or other groups to self-enforce and self-enact changes in their behavior; gives beneficiaries more control over the intervention |
| Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT): |
Transfers cash to people if they meet established conditions |
| Conditional Transfers: |
Transfers money or aid to people if they meet established conditions |
| Defaults: |
Makes a socially or personally desirable outcome the default choice so people are more likely to do it |
| E-products: |
An electronic product that is used in transactions or giving out information |
| Feedback: |
provides an evaluation or information about the behavior or performance of people to increase the likelihood they will learn faster |
| Financial Products: |
gives people a financial product they need |
| Framing: |
displays information or behavior in different ways to test the best way to frame something |
| Gender: |
the researchers manipulate gender in some way during the treatment |
| Incentives: |
researchers provide subjects with some type of motivation to complete an action |
| Identity: |
appeals to the way that people see themselves in order to get them to change their behavior |
| Information: |
seeks to educate people by distributing information without the use of another person |
| Institutional Rules: |
Who makes decisions, how they are made, and what these decisions are |
| Losses/Gains: |
uses loss aversion, and/or frames outcomes as losses and gains strategically |
| Mass Media: |
uses radio, television, social media, newspaper, or some other form of mass media |
| Participation/Community Mobilization: |
relies on communities or other groups to self-enforce and self-enact changes in their behavior; gives beneficiaries more control over the intervention |
| Physical Products: |
gives people a product they need |
| Price Variation: |
Offers goods or services at different prices. Usually done to estimate how demand for a commodity changes depending on its price |
| Reduce Decisions: |
reduces the number of choices or options that people have to avoid overwhelming them |
| Reminders: |
sends reminders in some form to people to increase the change they follow through |
| Risk Aversion: |
Avoiding risks. In investing, this means accepting the lower rate of return but avoiding the higher level of risk |
| Risk Reduction: |
Reduces the amount of risk people face in order to help them make more rational decisions |
| Service Product: |
gives people a service they need |
| Social Networks: |
uses social interactions and/or interpersonal relationships in some way |
| Social Norms: |
Acceptable rules of behavior in a group or society |
| Social Recognition: |
Publicly acknowledging a person or people for behaving in a certain way |
| Subsidy: |
Some part of the cost of a good or service is covered by a third party |
| Text Messages: |
uses text messages in some form |
| Timing/Frequency: |
varies timing/frequency of treatment |
| Transaction Cost: |
Cost incurred in making an exchange of some sort in the economy |
| Transparency: |
gives employees ability to get information/give information |
| Unconditional Transfers: |
Transfers money or aid to people that haven't met any sort of established standards or requirements |