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We implement a mixed method approach that combines a randomized controlled trial and qualitative data collection to assess whether, and if so how, behavioural change can be sustained. We do so in the context of Pakistan’s national sanitation strategy to combat open defecation, Community-Led...
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, but at the cost of user selection. Providers improve routine maintenance, but also respond strategically to the newly … delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and … facilities to either a control or two treatments. The first treatment incentivizes maintenance of the facility among providers …
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This study explores the interaction between the quality of public services, the implementation of user fees, and the resulting potential for exclusion, that can lead to negative externalities. Our theoretical framework takes account of the possible externalities that result from excluded users...
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This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries. We implement a field experiment in the slums of two major Indian cities, where inadequate access to sanitation restricts residents to either free ride, by...
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. The simulations suggest that the cost of patenting has been reduced by 20 to 30 percent since the enforcement of the LA …. With an average translation cost saving of €3,600 per patent, the total savings for the business sector amount to about … percent. Despite the translation cost savings, the relative cost of a European patent validated in six (thirteen) countries is …
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