Replication data for: Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jessica Cohen; Pascaline Dupas; Simone Schaner
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Project Citation:
Cohen, Jessica, Dupas, Pascaline, and Schaner, Simone. Replication data for: Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112911V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public
bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the
other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment-
seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this trade-off for subsidizing life-saving antimalarials sold over-the-counter at retail drug outlets. We show that a very high subsidy (such as the one under consideration by the international community) dramatically increases access, but nearly one-half of subsidized pills go to patients without malaria. We study two ways to better target subsidized drugs:
reducing the subsidy level, and introducing rapid malaria tests
over-the-counter. (JEL D12, D82, I12, O12, O15)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
I12 Health Behavior
O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
I12 Health Behavior
O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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