Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

By Nava Ashraf, James Berry, Jesse M. Shapiro. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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Do-gooders and go-getters: career incentives, selection, and performance in public service delivery (2014, result): “, 2015) or purchasing health products (Ashraf et al., 2010). In those settings, like in ours, self-selection cannot be mimicked by targeting on observable traits. Taken together, the evidence discussed in this paper highlights the importance of incentive design at the recruitment stage to attract st”
Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco (2011, unknown): “Previous studies (Ashraf et al., 2010; Kremer et al., 2010) have found very low willingness to pay for water purity, either in money (purchase of chlorine) or time (walking to the improved source).”
A First Step Up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda (2016, unknown): “Those households assigned to the control group received a compensation (one bottle of palm oil and a 5kg sack of rice) in order to 3 See Ashraf et al. (2010) for an application of this combined stratified re-randomization approach.”
Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments (2019, methodology): “None of the tables in the main paper or the 3We ignore this randomization since this is akin to a two-stage randomization design, such as the one featured in Cohen & Dupas (2010), Karlan & Zinman (2009), or Ashraf et al. (2010). 78”
Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India (2017, background): “For example Ashraf et al. (2010) note that in their marketing experiment in Zambia, their collaborating NGO suggests that, “paying something results in more drinking-water use than paying nothing”.”
Providing Safe Water: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations (2010, background): “home cleanliness, as in Ashraf et al. (2009), there may be social desirability bias to overreport use.”
Setting Priorities, Targeting Subsidies among Water, Sanitation, and Preventive Health Interventions in Developing Countries (2012, background): “The screening effect of “demand filters” may in some instances better reveal which households really want and benefit from particular interventions than do observable household characteristics (Ashraf et al., 2010).”
Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment (2008, unknown): “To isolate these separate channels, we follow Karlan and Zinman (2008) and Ashraf et al. (2007) and implement a randomized, two-stage pricing design.”