This paper investigates the effects of inequality in health on economic growth in low and middle income countries. The … period 1985 to 2007. I find a substantial and relatively robust negative effect of health inequality on income levels and … been shown to matter for growth. The effect also holds if health inequality is instrumented to circumvent a potential …

We exploit variation in the design of sub-national health care financing initiatives in Indonesian districts to assess …-panel, combining data from a unique survey among District Health Offices with the Indonesian Demographic and Health Surveys, the … home births, especially for households that fall outside the target group of the national health insurance programs. The …

We examine the marginal effects of decentralized public health spending by incorporating estimates of behavioural … responses to changes in public health spending through benefit incidence analysis. The analysis is based on a panel dataset of … 207 Indonesian districts over a 4-year period from 2001 to 2004. We show that district-level public health spending is …

We examine the marginal effects of decentralized public health spending by incorporating estimates of behavioural … responses to changes in public health spending through benefit incidence analysis. The analysis is based on a panel dataset of … 207 Indonesian districts over a 4-year period from 2001 to 2004. We show that district-level public health spending is …

In recent years, supported by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), a number of demand-driven community-based health … insurance (CBHI) schemes have been functioning in rural India. These CBHI schemes may design their benefit packages according to … of India’s poorest states.1 We find that the majority of respondents do access some form of care and that there is …