Shared Decision-Making : Can Improved Counseling Increase Willingness to Pay for Modern Contraceptives?
Long-acting reversible contraceptives are highly effective in preventing unintended pregnancies, but take-up remains low. This paper analyzes a randomized controlled trial of interventions addressing two barriers to long-acting reversible contraceptive adoption, credit, and informational constraints. The study offered discounts to the clients of a women's hospital in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and cross-randomized a counseling strategy that encourages shared decision-making using a tablet-based app that ranks modern methods. Discounts increased uptake by 50 percent, with larger effects for adolescents. Shared decision-making tripled the share of clients adopting a long-acting reversible contraceptive at full price, from 11 to 35 percent, and discounts had no incremental impact in this group
Authors: | Athey, Susan ; Bergstrom, Katy ; Hadad, Vitor ; Jamison, Julian C. ; Ozler, Berk ; Parisotto, Luca ; Sama, Julius Dohbit |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 9777 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Cameroon English |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012701146
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