Can higher prices stimulate product use?

evidence from a field experiment in Zambia

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Can higher prices stimulate product use?
Nava Ashraf, Nava Ashraf
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Can higher prices stimulate product use?

evidence from a field experiment in Zambia

2nd rev.

The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the developing world rests, in part, on whether higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We implement the methodology in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects.

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Can higher prices stimulate product use?: evidence from a field experiment in zambia
2007, National Bureau of Economic Research
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Can higher prices stimulate product use?: evidence from a field experiment in Zambia
2007, Division of Research, Harvard Business School
in English
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"Revised October 2008"--Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 07-034, Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 07-034

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