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malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. … and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of …
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may have conveyed information about the importance of preventing Malaria and about how to do so, and people adjusted their … may discourage net ownership and use, which would hinder Malaria eradication rather than promote it. We analyze new data … behavior accordingly. Alternatively, people may perceive bed nets and spray as complements, even though they are substitutes …
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may have conveyed information about the importance of preventing Malaria and about how to do so, and people adjusted their … may discourage net ownership and use, which would hinder Malaria eradication rather than promote it. We analyze new data … behavior accordingly. Alternatively, people may perceive bed nets and spray as complements, even though they are substitutes …
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public. In this paper, we employ a survey experiment conducted in Chile in order to examine how the provision of information … information about the low educational attainment of prisoners. This information led to substantial changes in policy preferences … they reduced their support for 'iron fist' policing. This indicates that providing information to citizens might change the …
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public. In this paper, we employ a survey experiment conducted in Chile in order to examine how the provision of information … information about the low educational attainment of prisoners. This information led to substantial changes in policy preferences … they reduced their support for “iron fist” policing. This indicates that providing information to citizens might change the …
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interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate …. Second, I only provide mothers with information without incentivizing the workers. Third, I combine the first two treatments …. This helps us identify if performance pay and public information are complements or substitutes in reducing child …
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improvement messages (information). The treatment group was separated into two groups: (1) a school children intervention group … allocation in the delivery of water quality information. The comparison group neither participated in the water quality self …-testing nor received information. The impacts of the experiment are estimated using intention-to-treat (ITT), instrumental …
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We use population administrative data from Sweden to study adherence to 63 medication-related guidelines. We compare the adherence of patients without personal access to medical expertise to the adherence of those with access, namely doctors and their close relatives. We estimate that, among...
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While the burden of non-communicable diseases is rising in low- and middle-income countries, the uptake of screening for these diseases remains low. We conducted a community-based RCT in Indonesia to assess whether personalized and targeted text messages can increase the demand for existing...
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