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One way to help college students get enough sleep – pay them to go to bed

  • Written by Osea Giuntella, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
One way to help college students get enough sleep – pay them to go to bedMost college students get less than seven hours of sleep per night.skynesher via Getty Images

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Small financial incentives can get college students to go to bed earlier and sleep significantly longer. That’s what my colleagues and I found through an experiment that...

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