Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment

By Jessica L. Cohen, P. Dupas. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Giving Credit Where It Is Due (2010, background): “Similar designs have been replicated in other context by Cohen and Dupas (2010) and Ashraf, Berry and Shapiro (2007) to identify the selection and (potential) treatment effect of prices of health goods.”
Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana (2020, neutral): “limited evidence that WTP for health goods in low-income countries is related to health characteristics or wealth (Ashraf, Berry and Shapiro 2010; Cohen and Dupas 2010), reflecting a common finding in the consumer behavior literature: choice is often only weakly correlated with standard consumer att”
Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India (2016, neutral): “However, the funders preferred that a (subsidized) fee be charged, reflecting a widely-held view among donors that cost-sharing is necessary to avoid wasting subsidies on those who will not value or use the product (Cohen and Dupas 2010).”
Can the West Save Africa (2008, positive): “For example, advocates of providing development goods for free often quote the Cohen and Dupas (2007) study that fi nds that going from free provision of bed nets to charging 75 cents per net (still heavily subsidized) reduced uptake by 75 percent.”
Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves (2013, neutral): “Grant Miller CHP/PCOR Stanford University”
When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering? (2017, positive): “We argue that the new design component is important because between-cluster variation in treatment assignments often motivates the use of clustered standard errors in empirical studies [see, e.g., Gentzkow and Shapiro, 2008, Cohen and Dupas, 2010].”
Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor (2018, background): “In fact, such small fees have been found to drastically reduce the take-up rate for several interventions (Ashraf, Berry, & Shapiro, 2010; Cohen & Dupas, 2010).”
Revised Estimates of the Impact of Climate Change on Extreme Poverty by 2030 (2020, background): “More context-specific public health interventions such as subsidizing bed nets and antimalarial drugs along with context-based 6 incentives are also another adaptation approach to minimize climate-induced health impacts to the poor (Cohen & Dupas, 2010; Cohen, Dupas, & Schaner, 2015).”
The Experimental Approach to Development Economics (2009, background): “Also in Kenya, Cohen and Dupas (2007) find that raising the price of insecticide treated bednets from 0 to 60 cents reduces the fraction of those who buy the nets by 60 percentage points.”
Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland (2018, neutral): “[35] Cohen, Jessica, and Pascaline Dupas.”
Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment Under Budget Constraints (2012, positive): “Costing $5 - $7 a net, however, ITNs are not affordable to most families (Cohen and Dupas, 2010; Dupas, 2010).”
Recent Advances in Impact Analysis Methods for Ex-post Impact Assessments of Agricultural Technology: Options for the CGIAR (2010, background): “In the field of health, for example, Miguel and Kremer (2004) randomize drug treatment at the school level and Cohen and Dupas (2010) randomize mosquito net prices at the clinic level. In education, Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2009) and Kremer et al.”