Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence From a Field Experiment

Econometrica

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 197-228

  Dupas, Pascaline ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Experimentation; Malaria; Prevention; Social learning; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893467734     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA9508     Document Type: Article

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