Study • Health · Health Risk Screening
The Demand For, and Impact Of, Learning HIV Status.
Thorton (2008), 'The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status', The American Economic Review.
Summary by Mark Egan
RCT in Malawi where treatment groups received financial incentives to pick up their HIV results.Even a tiny incentive of $0.30-$0.50 doubled the percentage of people coming to collect their results compared to the control, before tapering off quickly as the incentive increased.
Tactics used
TACTICS
Financial Incentives
TACTICS
Micro-Incentives
Behaviors addressed
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