Designing an Effective Policy for Timely Pickups
A daycare center is struggling with a consistent issue of parents arriving late to pick up their children. The management is aware of a well-known case where introducing a small monetary fine for lateness unexpectedly resulted in more parents arriving late, as it seemed to replace a sense of social obligation with a simple 'fee for service'. Based on this understanding, propose a non-financial or alternative financial intervention the daycare could implement to encourage punctuality. Justify your proposal by explaining the psychological or social mechanism through which you expect it to work, and why it might avoid the negative outcome observed with the small fine.
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