Title,Url,Last update date,Published at,First registered on,RCT_ID,DOI Number,Primary Investigator,Status,Start date,End date,Keywords,Country names,Other Primary Investigators,Jel code,Secondary IDs,Abstract,External Links,Sponsors,Partners,Intervention start date,Intervention end date,Intervention,Primary outcome end points,Primary outcome explanation,Secondary outcome end points,Secondary outcome explanation,Experimental design,Experimental design details,Randomization method,Randomization unit,Sample size number clusters,Sample size number observations,Sample size number arms,Minimum effect size,IRB,Analysis Plan Documents,Intervention completion date,Data collection completion,Data collection completion date,Number of clusters,Attrition correlated,Total number of observations,Treatment arms,Public data,Public data url,Program files,Program files url,Post trial documents csv,Relevant papers for csv Overcoming Supply Side Frictions for Distribution,http://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/3028,"June 05, 2018",2018-06-05 15:30:05 -0400,2018-06-04,AEARCTR-0003028,10.1257/rct.3028-1.0,Brett Green greenb@berkeley.edu,completed,2013-01-01,2016-04-30,"[""environment_and_energy"", ""finance"", ""Solar lights"", ""free trials"", ""trade credit"", ""consignment""]",Uganda (Africa),William Fuchs (wfuchs@gmail.com) University of Texas-Austin; David Levine (levine@berkeley.edu) University of California-Berkeley,"I15, O1, O33, D02, D86 ","","A large literature examines demand-side barriers to product adoption. In this experiment, we investigate supply-side barriers. We recruited entrepreneurs from BRAC's network of community health providers (CHPs) to distribute solar lights in rural Uganda. We provide entrepreneurs with training and information on solar lights. We then randomized over which arrangement to offer to the entrepreneurs. There were three contractual feature that we varied, one aimed at addressing credit constraints, one aimed at addressing vendor uncertainty, and one aimed at addressing customer uncertainty. We explored how each of these features influence overall sales performance of entrepreneurs. ","","","",2013-04-01,2015-06-30,"We randomly offered trade credit and the right to return unsold inventory to vendors of solar lights. We also randomly offered a ""loaner light"" that vendors could lend to customers for free trials.",Orders of solar lights by vendors,"","","","We randomly offered trade credit and the right to return unsold inventory to vendors of solar lights. We also randomly offered a ""loaner light"" that vendors could lend to customers for free trials.","","We divided each BRAC branch into 4 zones of several nearby vendors. We randomized zones using the pseduo-random number generator in Excel. Within each zone, we randomly chose one vendor to receive the ""loaner"" solar light. ",We randomized zones for credit and right to return. We randomized vendors for who would receive the loaner light first. ,We planned 8 branches with 4 zones per branch = 32 zones (the unit of randomization). ,We anticipated 4 vendors per zone * 32 zones = 128 vendors. ,"16 zones with credit and right to return (that is, consignment) 16 zones with credit only 16 zones with right to return only 16 zones with neither ","","Name: University of California, Berkeley Approval_number: 2012-09-4669 ",None,2014-06-30,true,,8 branches * 4 zones per branch = 32 zones,false,32 zones & 129 vendors,"16 zones with credit and right to return (that is, consignment) 16 zones with credit only 16 zones with right to return only 16 zones with neither (control) ",false,"",false,"","",""