What makes green persuasion effective? Evidence from a community-financed sanitation program in Indonesia
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Aggregate redistributional effects; Indonesia; Message; Persuasive communication; Randomized field experiment; Sanitation; Waste collection;All these keywords.
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- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- M37 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Advertising
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
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