| Field | Before | After |
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| Field Trial Status | Before on_going | After completed |
| Field Last Published | Before September 28, 2021 04:11 PM | After March 17, 2023 03:23 PM |
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After August 10, 2021 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After No |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
| Field Program Files | Before | After No |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After September 10, 2021 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After No |
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| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After Though healthcare services via mobile phones is freely available in Bangladesh, very few rural households use it. In this paper, I study whether information and experimentation with the mobile health services (MHS) can improve adoption and how adoption impacts health behaviors. I find that information about the service improves households’ awareness by more than 30 percentage points but does not affect adoption in the following two months. However, encouraging households to make a call and experience how the MHS works increases the adoption of the MHS by 17 percentage points. The adoption of MHS decreases households’ health expenditure, mostly driven by the reduction in medicine consumption. This happens because households that adopt MHS also make fewer visits to informal providers who usually overprescribe medicine. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Sardar, Ferdous Zaman, Adoption and Impact of Mobile Health Services: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4333117 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4333117 |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4333117 |