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Does Thinking About Your Spouse Change Your Financial Behavior?
By Wendy De La Rosa and Tuo Yang Take a moment and think about the most important financial decisions you make in your life: buying a house, investing for retirement, or saving for your kids’…
Common Cents Lab, Improve Cash Flow Management, Increase Short- and Long-term Savings / OCTOBER 17 2018
Applying Behavioral Science to Improve Retention Among Financial Coaching Programs
Whether it’s our morning routines or how we relax, a lot of how we behave from one day to the next is out of habit and we don’t give it a lot of thought….
Common Cents Lab / APRIL 10 2018
Asking Pays off – Save Money with Just One Phone Call
Credit card debt is at an all-time high. More than a third of households in the US carrying more than $16,000 in credit debt, with an average APR of 19.49%. If these households paid…
Common Cents Lab, Manage Debt / MARCH 19 2018
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Digital Health’s Secret Weapon: Behavioral Science
By Aline Holzwarth Article originally appeared in HealthTech magazine. Read the full article here. With the ubiquity of smartphones, and the fact that everyone (including your grandma) carries their devices with them everywhere, we also carry…
Make plans, not resolutions
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. By Aline Holzwarth Your new year’s resolution is very likely to fail. Most do. Resolutions are just not built to succeed. They rely on willpower, hoping…
The Mbrella Calendar: Helping Kenyan Families Track Their Savings for Health Insurance
Mbrella is a charitable organization devoted to helping impoverished Kenyan families buy health insurance. Mbrella connects donors with Kenyan mothers and employs a number of behavioral interventions meant to help the mother gain enough…
Help us improve email
Dear friends, In thinking about how to improve email (something that gives us both joy and stress), I’d like to ask for your help. I’m trying to understand how people use email and what…