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. 2012 Jun 11;109(27):10815–10820. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1115571109

Table 1.

Price experiment estimates

Efficiency cookstove
Chimney cookstove
Initial acceptance
Refusal Final acceptance
Initial acceptance
Refusal Final acceptance
Independent variable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Subsidy (50%) 0.252*** 0.256* −0.134* 0.116** 0.079 0.031 0.186** −0.132** 0.054** 0.065
(0.085) (0.136) (0.070) (0.045) (0.083) (0.062) (0.071) (0.054) (0.024) (0.041)
Household wealth index 0.061*** −0.036 0.019** 0.061*** −0.028* 0.002
(0.013) (0.022) (0.008) (0.016) (0.016) (0.003)
Household expenditures 0.000* −0.000 0.000 0.000*** −0.000 0.000
(0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000)
Children under age 5 y, n −0.042** 0.004 −0.017* 0.002 −0.001 −0.009*
(0.019) (0.031) (0.009) (0.026) (0.014) (0.004)
Region (Hatiya upazilla) 0.013 −0.070 0.024 −0.016 0.127** −0.031**
(0.084) (0.074) (0.026) (0.077) (0.056) (0.013)
Subsidy (50%) × household wealth index −0.009 0.016 0.016 0.027**
(0.022) (0.019) (0.022) (0.013)
Subsidy (50%) × household expenditures 0.000 0.000 −0.000*** −0.000
(0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000)
Subsidy (50%) × children under age 5 y, n 0.058* 0.029 −0.022 0.014
(0.033) (0.025) (0.042) (0.012)
Subsidy (50%) × region (Hatiya upazilla) −0.167 −0.049 −0.066 −0.031
(0.159) (0.086) (0.099) (0.038)
Constant 0.233*** 0.228*** 0.866*** 0.046*** 0.041* 0.314*** 0.227*** 0.892*** 0.020** 0.034*
(0.041) (0.033) (0.059) (0.013) (0.020) (0.044) (0.059) (0.056) (0.009) (0.017)
Observations 1,184 1,183 410 1,184 1,183 1,096 1,095 360 1,096 1,095
R2 0.069 0.116 0.037 0.037 0.059 0.001 0.057 0.086 0.016 0.051

Robust SEs clustered by village (the unit of randomization) are given in parentheses below values in all specifications. *Significance at 90%; **significance at 95%; ***significance at 99%. Data on household wealth, expenditures, and number of children under 5 are taken from survey responses given by the male household head.

Dependent variable Refusal is only defined for those households who initially accepted the cookstove offer. Note that this is a nonrandom subsample of all households.

The household wealth index was constructed by using principal component analysis on the basis of five variables: the respondent’s self-assessment of the household’s affluence on a scale of 1–5 and measures of the four separate categories of household assets—land, vehicles, animals, and cash savings.