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One pathway is providing access to foreign customers with a higher income, a demand for\u00a0quality\u00a0and access to\u00a0information\u00a0about achieving such\u00a0quality. However, this route is only available to a small fraction of firms in low-income countries. As income levels and preferences are hard to treat at scale, improving the \u201csavviness\u201d of domestic customers becomes the only policy instrument to change the demand for\u00a0quality\u00a0provision. Armstrong and Chen (2009) show theoretically that boosting the share of savvy\u00a0consumers\u00a0can\u00a0increase aggregate\u00a0quality, producer surplus and overall welfare. We conducted a framed field experiment in Uganda, showing that a simple information-provision intervention can indeed improve the ability of consumers to discern quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Lore Vandewalle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lore Vandewalle<strong> <\/strong>is a Professor\u00a0(hoogleraar) of Economics at the KU Leuven. She is also a Professor of Economics at the Geneva Graduate Institute (20%). Since September 2020, she has been affiliated with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).She is an applied microeconomist and her research mainly focuses on financial inclusion, micro-enterprise development and gender in India, Bangladesh and Uganda. She has also been working on political reservations and public good provision in Indi<em>a<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Language<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a free seminar. 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