Bennett, Daniel, Naqvi, Syed Ali Asjad, Schmidt, Wolf-Peter. 2015. Constraints on Compliance and the Impact of Health Information in Rural Pakistan. Health Economics May S. 1-17.
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Abstract
The provision of information, which is a common public health strategy, may be ineffective if recommendations are not privately optimal for message recipients. This paper evaluates the response to a hygiene information campaign in rural Pakistan. In a theoretical model, baseline hygiene and health proxy for preferences, prices, and wealth, which jointly moderate the impact of information. We show that people with good baseline hygiene and health respond differentially to the hygiene message. This result, which does not appear to arise through differential learning, suggests that practical constraints limit the adoption of hygiene recommendations. Information provision may exacerbate health inequality under these conditions.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Health Economics |
Citation Index | SSCI |
WU-Journal-Rating new | FIN-A, STRAT-A, VW-B, WH-A |
Language | English |
Title | Constraints on Compliance and the Impact of Health Information in Rural Pakistan |
Volume | May |
Year | 2015 |
Page from | 1 |
Page to | 17 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.3193/abstract |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.3193 |
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- People
- Naqvi, Syed Ali Asjad (Details)
- External
- Bennett, Daniel (University of Chicago, United States/USA)
- Schmidt, Wolf-Peter (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom)
- Organization
- Institute for Ecological Economics IN (Details)
- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5300 Economics (Details)