@techreport{4f58c2473dd14146a76f57009688a794,
title = "Increasing anti-malaria bednets uptake using information and distribution strategies",
abstract = "Abstract This paper studies the effect of information on malaria and of distribution strategies on the demand for anti-malaria bednets. We use a randomized experiment in the city of Thies in Senegal. We offer two orthogonal treatments to a random sample of households. The first is a sale treatment and consists of (1) an offer to purchase on the spot a bednet at a subsidized price or (2) an offer to purchase a bednet at the same subsidized price with a voucher valid for 7 days. The second is an information treatment that consists of a ten-minute information session on malaria related issues. We find that information has no significant effect on the demand of bednets and that, receiving a voucher increases purchasing by 20%. Our results suggest that selling bednets at a subsidized prize allowing for some flexibility with a short period of seven days increases purchase compared to the on-the-spot sale approach.",
keywords = "bednet, information, malaria, prevention",
author = "Jacopo Bonan and Philippe Lemay-boucher and Douglas Scott and Michel Tenikue",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
series = "Working Papers",
publisher = "LISER",
number = "2015-03",
address = "Luxembourg",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "LISER",
}