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July 17, 2017

Wall Street Journal: People Don’t Exercise Much More Even If You Pay Them to Go to the Gym

Paying Americans to go to the gym may not be enough to help them build a habit of regular exercise. A new study, circulated Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research as a working paper, described a recent experiment in which new gym members were given up to $60 based on attendance over a […] Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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