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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP13498 |
DP13498 Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Sanitation in Bangladesh | |
James Levinsohn; Raymond Guiteras | |
发表日期 | 2019-01-31 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | For many products, the utility of adoption depends on the share of other households that adopt. We estimate a structural model of demand that allows for these inter-dependencies. We apply our model to the adoption of household latrines - a technology that has large consequences for public health. We estimate the model using data from a large-scale experiment covering over 18,000 households in 380 communities in rural Bangladesh, where we randomly assigned incentives to purchase latrines. Subsidies were randomly assigned at the household level to identify the direct effect of price, and subsidy saturation was randomly varied at the community level to identify strategic complementarities in demand. We conduct counter-factual simulations to analyze the policymaker's tradeoffs along price, saturation and scope margins: To raise aggregate latrine adoption, is it better to intensely subsidize a few, or widely disperse subsidies across households or communities? We also analyze the effects of targeting subsidies on the basis of household poverty, social position, or neighborhood population density. Finally, we use additional experiments to explore mechanisms underlying the complementarity in demand, and find that shame and changing social norms are driving factors. |
主题 | Development Economics |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13498 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542314 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James Levinsohn,Raymond Guiteras. DP13498 Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Sanitation in Bangladesh. 2019. |
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