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The Illusion of Sustainability

Kremer, M., Miguel, E.·2007·The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DOI 10.1162/qjec.122.3.1007
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We use a randomized evaluation of a Kenyan deworming program to estimate peer effects in technology adoption and to shed light on foreign aid donors' movement towards sustainable community provision of public goods. Deworming is a public good since much of its social benefit comes through reduced disease transmission. People were less likely to take deworming if their direct first-order or indirect second-order social contacts were exposed to deworming. Efforts to replace subsidies with sustainable worm control measures were ineffective: a drug cost-recovery program reduced take-up 80 percent; health education did not affect behavior, and a mobilization intervention failed. At least in this context, it appears unrealistic for a one-time intervention to generate sustainable voluntary local public goods provision.

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Authors
Kremer, M., & Miguel, E.
Venue
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2007-08-01
Volume
122
Issue
3
Pages
1007-1065
ISSN
  • 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
  • 1531-4650
DOI
10.1162/qjec.122.3.1007
OpenAlex
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544
References
63
FWCI
74.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
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