全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20170
来源ID	Working Paper 20170
	To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
	Greg Fischer; Dean Karlan; Margaret McConnell; Pia Raffler
发表日期	2014-05-29
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	In a field experiment in Uganda, a free distribution of three health products lowers subsequent demand relative to a sale distribution. This contrasts with work on insecticide-treated bed nets, highlighting the importance of product characteristics in determining pricing policy. We put forward a model to illustrate the potential tension between two of these important factors, learning and anchoring, and then test this model with three products selected specifically for their variation in the scope for learning. We find the rank order of percentage change of shifts in demand matches theoretical predictions, although the differences are not statistically significant, and only two of three pairwise comparisons match when the reductions are specified in percent terms. These results highlight the importance of understanding pricing policy with respect to product, market, and household characteristics.
主题	Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Economics of Information ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Development and Growth ; Development
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20170
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577843
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Greg Fischer,Dean Karlan,Margaret McConnell,et al. To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda. 2014.