implement the methodology in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We …

effect of at scale drug provision in a poor country, using the phased roll-out of ART in Zambia, a setting where …

, such as quality or price. An attribute is salient for a good when it stands out among the good's characteristics, in the … are characterized by only one quality attribute and price, salience tilts choices toward goods with higher ratios of … quality to price. We use the model to account for a variety of disparate bits of evidence, including decoy effects in consumer …

efficiency. We distinguish countries with and without universal insurance, because insurance undermines patients' price … for health; manufacturers price to that ICER threshold; and payers limit reimbursement to patients for whom a drug is cost …-effective at that price and ICER, then the resulting price levels and use within each country and price differentials across …

but the signaling effect of price is far from complete, especially for non-innovator brands. The look of the pharmacy, as … are likely to suspect low quality from market price, non-innovator brand and the look of the pharmacy, but none of these …

affects prices to retail pharmacies, plausibly because uncertain quality leads to competition on brand rather than price …

region. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on the price and utilization of pharmaceutical treatments … potentially negotiate price discounts through their ability to influence the market share of specific treatments. Using data on … the average price and increased the total utilization of prescription drugs by Medicare recipients. Our results further …

This paper examines the relationship between drug price and drug quality and how it varies across two of the most … standards and price control mechanisms (MES+PC). Through a simple model of adverse selection we model the interaction between … greater incentives to produce high quality drugs. Second, an MES+PC mix reduces the difference in price between the highest …

agencies and private organizations all conducting investigations into the pricing patterns for generic drugs. Price spikes for … selected old, off-patent drugs have also been widely reported in the media. To place these generic price increases into context …, we construct two chained Laspeyres consumer price indexes (CPIs), using the 2007-2016 IBM MarketScan Commercial Claims …