,271 interactions between 292 doctors and their patients in 98 clinics and hospitals in Paraguay and conducted an exit-survey with the … same patients as they left the clinic. For a subsample of 64 facilities they also interviewed patients who visited the … patients interviewed at home compared with those interviewed at the clinic. This leads the authors to conclude that even if …

The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the …

perceived health care quality and prices impact patients' bypassing decisions. The analysis uses data from a Quantitative …This paper investigates individuals' bypassing behavior in the health sector in Chad and the determinants of … individuals' facility choice. The authors introduce a new way to measure bypassing using the patients' own knowledge of …

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health …. The authors evaluate the causal effect of child labor participation on these outcomes using panel data from Vietnam and an … worked as children. The authors find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, they estimate that from age 30 …

Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Blood cholinesterase tests suggest that the incidence of poisoning from exposure to organophosphates … and carbamates is quite high in Vietnam. Using the medical test results as benchmarks, the authors find that farmers' self …

The author is concerned with the role of education as a determinant of health care choices. His central premise is that … utilization of health services is determined not solely by an individual's own education, but rather by a notion of effective … education of different household members affects health care choices. He tests these hypotheses on data from Mozambique …

economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … customer density in Moldova and Vietnam. The results of this study show that the cost structure of the water and wastewater …

villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health … collected baseline measures of sanitation conditions, behavior, and child health, and re-visited households 21 months later. The … child health outcomes (diarrhea, helminth infections, child growth). However, the exposure period was likely to have been …