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| Title: | | Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments? Malaria control policies in Eritrea  |
| Authors: | | Carneiro, Pedro Locatelli, Andrea Ghebremeskel, Tewolde Keating, Joseph |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | cemmap working paper CWP12/12 |
| Abstract: | | It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying (IRS) in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program inducing perverse incentives. We analyze new data from a randomized control trial conducted in Eritrea which surprisingly shows the opposite: IRS encouraged net acquisition and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. |
| Subjects: | | Malaria Bed nets Indoor residual spray Information Beliefs Behavior |
| JEL: | | D12 D83 H42 I12 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2012.1212 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | cemmap working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
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