Time Preferences and Medication Adherence: A FieldExperiment with Pregnant Women in South Africa
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Time Preferences and Medication Adherence: A FieldExperiment with Pregnant Women in South Africa. / Barron, Kai; Damgaard, Mette Trier; Gravert, Christina; Norrgren, Lisa.
2020.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Time Preferences and Medication Adherence: A FieldExperiment with Pregnant Women in South Africa
AU - Barron, Kai
AU - Damgaard, Mette Trier
AU - Gravert, Christina
AU - Norrgren, Lisa
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The effectiveness of health recommendations and treatment plans depends on theextent to which individuals follow them. For the individual, medication adherence in-volves an inter-temporal trade-off between expected future health benefits and immedi-ate effort costs. Therefore examining time preferences may help us to understand whysome people fail to follow health recommendations and treatment plans. In this paper,we use a simple, real-effort task implemented via text message to elicit the time prefer-ences of pregnant women in South Africa. We find evidence that high discounters aresignificantly less likely to report to adhere to the recommendation of taking daily ironsupplements daily during pregnancy. There is some indication that time-inconsistencyalso negatively affects adherence. Together our results suggest that measuring timepreferences could help predict medication adherence and thus be used to improve pre-ventive health care measures.
AB - The effectiveness of health recommendations and treatment plans depends on theextent to which individuals follow them. For the individual, medication adherence in-volves an inter-temporal trade-off between expected future health benefits and immedi-ate effort costs. Therefore examining time preferences may help us to understand whysome people fail to follow health recommendations and treatment plans. In this paper,we use a simple, real-effort task implemented via text message to elicit the time prefer-ences of pregnant women in South Africa. We find evidence that high discounters aresignificantly less likely to report to adhere to the recommendation of taking daily ironsupplements daily during pregnancy. There is some indication that time-inconsistencyalso negatively affects adherence. Together our results suggest that measuring timepreferences could help predict medication adherence and thus be used to improve pre-ventive health care measures.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - time preferences
KW - medication adherence
KW - field experiment
M3 - Working paper
T3 - CEBI Working Paper Series
BT - Time Preferences and Medication Adherence: A FieldExperiment with Pregnant Women in South Africa
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