Title: What Matters (and What Does Not) in Households' Decision to Invest in Malaria Prevention

Type Dataset Dupas, Pascaline (2017): What Matters (and What Does Not) in Households' Decision to Invest in Malaria Prevention. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/EH1PI9

Authors: Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford University) ; Research Transparency, Data Ethics, and Governance (Innovations for Poverty Action) ;

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Summary

This paper tests the effects on the take-up of a preventative health product of two interventions based on behavioral models derived from psychology: varying the framing of the perceived benefits; and having people verbally commit to purchase the product. I find that none of these interventions had a significant effect (whether economically or statistically) on take-up, and that the gender of the household member targeted was also irrelevant. In contrast, I find that take-up is sensitive to price, as in Cohen and Dupas (2008), and is correlated with indicators of household’s wealth.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/EH1PI9

Subjects

• Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Health, Government policy, Regulation, Public health, Economic development, Malaria, Product pricing, Technology adoption

Dates

• Publication date: 2017
• Submitted: January 06, 2017
• Updated: November 13, 2019
• Collected: 2007 to 2008

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Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

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Format

electronic resource