Title
The need for quasi-experimental methodology to evaluate pricing effects
Date Issued
01 January 1993
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Abstract
Family planning program managers may be easily misled by conclusions about the effects of price increases on the demand for services when the findings are based on pre-experiments such as the single-group pretest-posttest study, generally believed to be practical. This report presents financial and service data from clinics in Ecuador, which, analyzed according to the single-group pretest-posttest design, would suggest that the demand for intrauterine device services is inelastic. However, considerable demand elasticity is detected when data are analyzed according to more rigorous quasi-experimental designs. -from Authors
Start page
375
End page
381
Volume
24
Issue
6 Part 1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias socio biomédicas (planificación familiar, salud sexual, efectos políticos y sociales de la investigación biomédica) Ciencias médicas, Ciencias de la salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0027788894
PubMed ID
Source
Studies in Family Planning
ISSN of the container
00393665
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