Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Jessica Cohen, Pascaline Dupas, Simone G. Schaner

NBER Working Paper No. 17943
Issued in March 2012

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We thank the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Novartis Pharmaceuticals for financial support. We are very grateful to the Kenya Ministry of Health, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Collaborative, Kenya CDC, PSI-Kenya, Jean Arkedis, Justin Cohen and Oliver Sabot for consultation and feedback on the study design and Achyuta Adhvaryu, David Canning, Melissa Dell, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Dave Donaldson, Kelsey Jack, Asim Khwaja, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Anup Malani, Sendhil Mullainathan, Sarah Reber, Jon Skinner, John Strauss and numerous seminar participants for helpful feedback. We thank Katie Conn and Sarah Walker for excellent study coordination, Moses Baraza for smooth implementation of the project and the IPA-Kenya field officers for superb data collection. This research was not the product of any paid consulting relationship and we have no financial interest in the topic of this paper. All errors are our own. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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