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Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?
- Abstract:
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Behavioral constraints may explain part of low demand for preventive health products. We test the effects of two light-touch psychological interventions on water chlorination and related health and economic outcomes using a randomized controlled trial among 3750 women in rural Kenya. One intervention encourages participants to visualize alternative realizations of the future; one builds participants' ability to make concrete plans to achieve goals. Both interventions include information on he...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher:
- National Bureau of Economic Research Publisher's website
- Volume:
- 25731
- Series:
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Host title:
- NBER Working Papers
- Publication date:
- 2019-04-01
- DOI:
- Source identifiers:
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998358
- Paper number:
- 25731
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- pubs:998358
- Deposit date:
- 2019-08-06
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- Haushofer et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- © 2019 by Johannes Haushofer, Anett John, and Kate Orkin.
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