Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Abstract: This paper is about a field experiment which was designed to estimate the relative importance of competing effects of targeted subsidies for health products. It has been found out that, for a health product with high private returns (an anti malarial bednet), positive experience and social leanings eliminate.

Keywords: technologyadoption; subsidies; social learning; anchoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-05
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Journal Article: Short‐Run Subsidies and Long‐Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence From a Field Experiment (2014)
Working Paper: Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2010)
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