Can SMS Technology Improve Low Take-up of Social Benefits?
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- Blanco Mariana & Vargas Juan F., 2014. "Can SMS Technology Improve Low Take-up of Social Benefits?," Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 20(1), pages 61-81, January.
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Keywords
Information asymmetries; take-up rate; SMS; RCT;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2014-05-17 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-EXP-2014-05-17 (Experimental Economics)
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