Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves

Miller, Grant; Mushfiq Mobarak, Ahmed

doi:10.3386/w18964

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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves

Published in National Bureau of Economic Research • Apr 1, 2013

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Grant Miller

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

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This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in tu...

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