SMS Interventions for Reducing Medicine Overuse: A Field Experiment in China
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We study two interventions that provide information on antibiotics resistance to potential patients through text messages in Beijing, China. The “self health” intervention emphasizes the threat to own health and is found to have a negligible effect. The “social health” intervention that highlights the threat to the society reduces the usage of antibiotics by 17%. Overall health care utilization is not affected, since neither the number of visits, nor the spending on other drugs, examinations and services falls. The messages are sent once each month for five months, and there is some evidence on habituation toward the end of data coverage.

With Daixin He (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) and Jianan Yang, UC San Diego
Date: 11 November 2020, 12:30
Venue: Register here - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1116044903701/WN_EpQtH1mEQq6BF9yrEDEmWA
Speaker: Fangwen Lu (Renmin University of China)
Organising department: Department of Economics
Organisers: Emma Riley (Department of Economics, University of Oxford), Margaryta Klymak (Department of International Development), Lukas Hensel (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: suzanne.george@economics.ox.ac.uk
Part of: CSAE Development Economics Webinar Series
Booking required?: Required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Suzanne George, Sameer Pathak, Cara Shelton