Being informed matters: Experimental evidence on the demand for environmental quality
作者： E. Somanathan , Jyotsna Jalan
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关键词: Environmental quality 、 Activity-based costing 、 Test (assessment) 、 Treatment and control groups 、 Environmental science 、 Environmental health 、 Fecal coliform
摘要: A randomly selected treatment group of households in Gurgaon, India was informed whether (or not) their drinking water had tested positive for fecal contamination using a simple test costing about $0.50. Households that were not initially purifying water, and told positive, 11 percentage points (p-value
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