Do Free Goods Stick to Poor Households? Experimental Evidence on Insecticide Treated Bednets
Do Free Goods Stick to Poor Households? Experimental Evidence on Insecticide Treated Bednets
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DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.08.003
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发表时间：
2009-03-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Just, David R.
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作者：
Hoffmann, Vivian;Barrett, Christopher B.;Just, David R.
如果市场将商品分配给那些愿意并有能力支付最高价格的人，那么针对贫困人口的耐用品（如驱虫蚊帐）的努力可能会被证明是无效的。穷人将捐赠的物品转售给非穷人，后者更看重这些物品。然而。市场需求低可能是由于流动性限制，而不是由于净值低。禀赋效应也不利于实物转让的转售。我们通过在乌干达进行的实地试验量化了这两种影响。我们的结果表明，很少有蚊帐会被接收家庭转卖。(C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd版权所有。
If the market allocates goods to those willing and able to pay the most for them, efforts to target durable health goods such as insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) to poor populations may prove ineffective. with the poor reselling donated goods to the non-poor who value them more highly. However. low market demand may be due to liquidity constraints rather than low valuation of nets. The endowment effect also militates against the resale of in-kind transfers. We quantify these two effects through a field experiment in Uganda. Our results indicate that very few nets will be resold by recipient households. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.