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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India

Das, Jishnu - 2015

We present the first direct evidence on the relative quality of public and private healthcare in a low-income setting, using a unique set of audit studies. We sent standardized (fake) patients to rural primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and recorded the quality of care...

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Does Management Matter in Schools

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

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Does the Market Reward Quality? : Evidence from India

Wagner, Zachary; Banerjee, Somalee; Mohanan, Manoj; … - 2022

studies in India that provide unique insight into this issue. First, we use a discrete choice experiment to show that patients …

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The Relationship Dilemma : Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking

Mishra, Prachi - 2019

Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state … banks suggests that neither bank size nor government ownership fully explains adoption patterns. Organizational culture …

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Government Guarantees and Bank Vulnerability During a Crisis : Evidence from an Emerging Market

Acharya, Viral V.; Kulkarni, Nirupama - 2022

pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and … shortening of deposit maturity. In contrast, nearby vulnerable state-owned bank branches grew their deposit base and increased …

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Going to a Better School : Effects and Behavioral Responses

Pop-Eleches, Cristian - 2011

This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression...

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Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare

Chandra, Amitabh - 2010

We use simple economic insights to develop a framework for distinguishing between prejudice and statistical discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by race and gender are not explained by access,...

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School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment

Deming, David - 2012

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college attainment among lottery winners who attend their first choice school. Using rich administrative data on peers,...

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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times : Understanding Pro-Cyclical Mortality

Stevens, Ann Huff - 2011

A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and attempt to identify the mechanisms behind it. Specifically, we distinguish between mechanisms that rely on fluctuations in own employment or time use and those involving factors...

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Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools : Evidence from New York City

Dobbie, Will - 2011

Charter schools were developed, in part, to serve as an R&D engine for traditional public schools, resulting in a wide variety of school strategies and outcomes. In this paper, we collect unparalleled data on the inner-workings of 35 charter schools and correlate these data with credible...

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