Do Non-Monetary Prices Target the Poor?: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India

Bridget Hoffmann

No 7862, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income. Household fixed effects in a pooled sample of monetary WTP and non-monetary WTP are used to compare the correlation of income and WTP across price types. It is found that non-monetary WTP falls relative to monetary WTP as income rises. Finally, a greater fraction of demand is comprised of the poor at non-monetary prices.

Keywords: health products; willingness to pay; water purifier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D61 H42 I14 I15 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-10
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