When Incentives Aren't Enough: Evidence on Inattention and Imperfect Memory from HIV Medication Adherence

We thank Vicente Chauque, Felicio Almeida, and Faustino Lessitala for stellar leadership and field management. Manuel Alficha, Murilo Murilo, and Roque Mário were key partners at Munhava Health Center in Beira. Moustafa El-Kashlan, Flavia Lorenzon, Danito Angorete, Jiaqi Zhao, Rongyu Cui provided first-rate research assistance. We appreciate world-class grant administration by Julie Esch, Henrike Florusbosch, and Lauren Tingwall. This study's protocols were approved by Institutional Review Boards in Mozambique (Ministry of Health, 43/CNBS/19) and at the University of Michigan (HSBS, HUM00133179). We submitted a pre-analysis plan to the American Economic Association RCT Registry (AEARCTR-0003184) on 8/19/2019. We are grateful for financial support from several University of Michigan units: the African Studies Center, the Department of Economics MITRE research fund, Michigan Medicine (MICHR), and the Population Studies Center of the Institute for Social Research (via a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)). Hang Yu gratefully acknowledges support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-7230030330). 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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