The low take-up of cost-effective and highly subsidised preventive health technologies in low-income countries remains … a puzzle. One under-studied reason is that the design of subsidy schemes is such that households remain financially … constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how, micro-finance supports a large public health subsidy program in the developing …

-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways shifted employment from the farm to the nonfarm sector, and that this shift was …, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on …