TY - RPRT AU - Ajzenman, Nicolas AU - Bóo, Florencia López TI - Lessons from Behavioral Economics to Improve Treatment Adherence in Parenting Programs: An Application to SMS PY - 2019/Nov/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 12808 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12808 AB - A growing literature shows how insights from behavioral economics can be successfully adopted in simple interventions through SMS or other types of low-cost communications. In this short, note we provide concrete basic guidelines to design behaviorally informed messages, based on theory and our own experience. We provide examples applied to parenting interventions. KW - behavioral interventions KW - parenting KW - child development KW - poverty ER -