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dc.titleDo Non-Monetary Prices Target the Poor?: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India
dc.contributor.authorHoffmann, Bridget
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageIndia
dc.date.available2016-10-03T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2016-10-03T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income. Household fixed effects in a pooled sample of monetary WTP and non-monetary WTP are used to compare the correlation of income and WTP across price types. It is found that non-monetary WTP falls relative to monetary WTP as income rises. Finally, a greater fraction of demand is comprised of the poor at non-monetary prices.
dc.format.extent51
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011765
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Do-Non-Monetary-Prices-Target-the-Poor-Evidence-from-a-Field-Experiment-in-India.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectNon-Monetary Price
dc.subjectWater Purifier
dc.subjectWage
dc.subjectWillingness to Pay
dc.subjectHealth Expenditure
dc.subjectDrinking Water
dc.subjectHousehold Income
dc.subjectWater Quality
dc.subjectImpact Evaluation
dc.subjectRandomized Controlled Trial
dc.subject.jelcodeC93 - Field Experiments
dc.subject.jelcodeD61 - Allocative Efficiency • Cost—Benefit Analysis
dc.subject.jelcodeH42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods
dc.subject.jelcodeI14 - Health and Inequality
dc.subject.jelcodeI15 - Health and Economic Development
dc.subject.jelcodeO12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
dc.subject.keywordshealth products;willingness to pay;water purifier
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberWorking Papers
idb.operationBK-C1102
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