As utility services expand throughout the developing world, providers must grapple with how to set prices to recover average costs. Data from a multi-year randomized pricing experiment among nearly 1500 recently-connected piped water customers in Vietnam reveal month-to-month demand persistence. Based on structural demand estimation, the authors document how endogenous preferences, if unaccounted for, can lead to low take-up and thereby threaten the...
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2020/04/07
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政策研究报告
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WPS9207
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2020/04/07
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Disclosed
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Optimal Pricing of a New Utility Service : The Case of Piped Water in Vietnam
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piped water