Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan

We are grateful to Rashid Langrial (former Commissioner of Lahore), Muhammad Usman (District Coordinating Officer Lahore), and Zulfiqar Ali (Executive District Officer Health Lahore) for championing the project. We are grateful for financial support from the International Growth Center (IGC), the Pershing Square Fund for Research on the Foundations of Human Behavior, and from the Department for International Development (DFID) Building Capacity for Research Evidence (BCURE) pilot program initiative. We are grateful to Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD), the Center for Economic Research Pakistan (CERP), Katy Doyle, and Sarah Oberst, for excellent logistical support. We are indebted to Michael Best, Eli Berman, Leonardo Bursztyn, Ernesto Dal Bó, Torun Dewan, Asim Fayaz, Frederico Finan, Ed Glaeser, Matthew Kahn, Supreet Kaur, Asim Khwaja, Aprajit Mahajan, Dilip Mookherjee, Andrew Newman, Gerard Padró-i-Miquel, Robert Powell, Matthew Rabin, Gautam Rao, Martin Rotemberg, Frank Schilbach, Erik Snowberg, Joshua Tasoff, Juan Vargas, Pedro Vicente, Nico Voigtlander, Romain Wacziarg, Noam Yuchtman and seminar participants at UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, Claremont Graduate University, Harvard, the London School of Economics, Nova de Lisboa, Stanford, the Pacific Development Conference, the New England Universities Development Consortium, UCLA Anderson, Wharton, Princeton, and Boston University for extremely helpful comments. We are especially grateful to Rohini Pande for many conversations about this project. Hashim Rao and Danish Raza provided excellent research assistance. Research is approved by the Institutional Review Board at Harvard and at UC San Diego. The study is registered in the AEA RCT Registry as AEARCTR-0000417. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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