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Holiday gifts to curb bad habits

This holiday season, behavioral economics could be a gift that keeps giving

12/18/2014 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

Holiday gifts to curb bad habits

Clip: 12/18/2014 | 6m 34s

This holiday season, behavioral economics could be a gift that keeps giving

Do you struggle with slouching, overeating or oversleeping? This holiday season, there’s a gift for that. Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to Sendhil Mullainathan about consumer innovations that promise to improve your life through behavioral economics.

12/18/2014 | Rating NR

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