@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6560,
            	author={Carneiro, Pedro and Locatelli, Andrea and Ghebremeskel, Tewolde and Keating, Joseph},
            	title={Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea},
            	year={2012},
	month={May},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={6560},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6560},
	abstract={It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying (IRS) in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program inducing perverse incentives. We analyze new data from a randomized control trial conducted in Eritrea which surprisingly shows the opposite: IRS encouraged net acquisition and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments.
},
	keywords={crowding out;behavior;malaria;beliefs;information;indoor residual spray;bed nets;health;developing countries},
            }