Cohen, Jessica; Dupas, Pascaline; Schaner, Simone - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 2, pp. 609-45
Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment- seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this trade-off for subsidizing life-saving...