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Can parental migration reduce petty corruption in education?

Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Santos Silva, Manuel; Heidland, Tobias - 2015

Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and schoollevel inputs. In poor countries, remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of migrant parents can affect families’ time allocation...

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Social accountability and service delivery : experimental evidence from Uganda

Fiala, Nathan; Premand, Patrick - 2018

Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth … significant information about where corruption and mismanagement is worse. We show evidence that the impacts come in part from … government-led, large-scale social accountability programs can strengthen communities’ ability to address corruption and …

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Biting back at malaria : self-medication, traditional healers, and the public sector

Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2013

Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment practices of various health care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of the world’s deaths due to malaria occur. To assess the quality of each health...

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Self-medication under uncertainty: insights on drug quality and consumer behavior in Burkina Faso

Bocoum, Fadima; Hartwig, Renate; Koala, Moumouni; … - 2024

Do consumers change their self-medication practices when drug quality changes? We present experimental evidence on this question in the context of Burkina Faso, where self-medication with antibiotics is a prevalent practise. We conduct chemical quality testing of antibiotics and find that one in...

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How to improve patient care? : an analysis of capitation, fee-for-service, and mixed payment schemes for physicians

Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; … - 2013

In recent health care reforms, several countries have replaced pure payment schemes for physicians (fee-for-service, capitation) by so-called mixed payment schemes. Until now it is still an unresolved issue whether patients are really better off after these reforms. In this study we compare the...

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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2013

In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of public quality reporting, on the quality of medical...

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Altruism heterogeneity and quality competition among healthcare providers

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2014

New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...

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P4P, reputation and the reduction of costly overprovision

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2012

We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...

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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment ; conference paper

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2014

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Regional differences in the efficiency of health production : an artefact of spatial dependence?

Felder, Stefan; Tauchmann, Harald - 2009

The inefficiency of health care provision presents a major health policy concern in Germany. In order to address the issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e. at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual service providers - empirical analyses are often based...

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