Unblurring the Market for Vision Correction: A Willingness to Pay Experiment in Rural Burkina Faso
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Keywords
willingness to pay; liquidity constraint; information constraint; eyeglasses; Burkina Faso;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2018-12-10 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DCM-2018-12-10 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-EXP-2018-12-10 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2018-12-10 (Health Economics)
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