Jyotsna Jalan|E. Somanathan
The importance of being informed: Experimental evidence on demand for environmental quality
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta|Indian Statistical Institute
extent information affect demand environmental quality randomly selected group households indian city informed whether drinking water tested positive fecal contamination using simple inexpensive test kit households initially purifying water told drinking water possibly contaminated 11 percentage points likely begin form home purification next eight weeks households received information spent 724 ppp purification control households way comparison additional year schooling educated male household associated 3 percentagepoint rise probability initial purification standarddeviation increase wealth index associated 12 percentagepoint rise probability 1175 rise expenditure initially purifying households received contamination result react reducing purification results suggest estimates demand environment quality assume full information may significantly underestimate