Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India
| العنوان: | Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India |
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| المؤلفون: | Reshmaan Hussam, Atonu Rabbani, Giovanni Reggiani, Natalia Rigol |
| المصدر: | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 14:1-41 |
| بيانات النشر: | American Economic Association, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | General Economics, Econometrics and Finance |
| الوصف: | We test the predictions of the rational addiction model, reconceptualized as rational habit formation, in the context of handwashing in rural India. To track handwashing, we design soap dispensers with timed sensors. We test for rational habit formation by informing some households about a future change in the returns to daily handwashing. Monitoring and incentives raise handwashing contemporaneously, and effects persist well after they end. In addition, people are rational about this habit formation: when they anticipate future monitoring, they increase their current handwashing. Average child weight and height increase for all study arms given soap dispensers. (JEL D12, D83, D91, I12, I18, J13, O12) |
| تدمد: | 1945-7790 1945-7782 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::d4f933ea489e59e3cc11c585c97b3b77 https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20190568 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........d4f933ea489e59e3cc11c585c97b3b77 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19457790 19457782 |
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