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Patient Satisfaction, Doctor Effort, and Interview Location : Evidence from Paraguay
Das, Jishnu - 2016
To examine the relationship between patient satisfaction and doctor performance, the authors observed 2 … facility within the last week. There are three patterns in the data: (1) Patient satisfaction is positively correlated with … observed doctor and patient characteristics; (2) However, accounting for unobserved doctor characteristics dramatically reduces …
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Information is Power : Experimental Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of Community Based Monitoring
Bjorkman Nyqvist, Martina - 2017
This paper presents the results of two field experiments on local accountability in primary health care in Uganda. Efforts to stimulate beneficiary control, coupled with the provision of report cards on staff performance, resulted in significant improvements in health care delivery and health...
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Long-Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity
Celhay, Pablo A. - 2017
The adoption of new clinical practice patterns by medical care providers is often challenging, even when the patterns are believed to be efficacious and profitable. This paper uses a randomized field experiment to examine the effects of temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics...
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Does Involvement of Local Ngos Enhance Public Service Delivery? Cautionary Evidence from a Malaria-Prevention Evaluation in India
Das, Ashis - 2017
Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the impact of leveraging local non-state capacity to promote mosquito net usage and recommended fever care-seeking patterns. The supportive activities were conducted simultaneously by...
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Using Performance Incentives to Improve Health Outcomes
Gertler, Paul J. - 2017
This study examines the effect of performance incentives for health care providers to provide more and higher quality care in Rwanda on child health outcomes. The authors find that the incentives had a large and significant effect on the weight-for-age of children 0-11 months and on the...
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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms : Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2017
The authors conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of two alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either...
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A Randomized, Controlled Study of a Rural Sanitation Behavior Change Program in Madhya Pradesh, India
Patil, Sumeet - 2017
Poor sanitation and open defecation are thought to be a major cause of diarrhea and intestinal parasite infections among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet coverage in rural India by 2012. This paper reports on a...
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Productivity and Health : Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity
Akogun, Oladele B. - 2018
This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker labor outcomes, such as labor supply and daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data,...
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Impacts of Improved Biomass Cookstoves on Child and Adult Health : Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
LaFave, Daniel - 2019
This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia. After near complete stove adoption during an initial one-year randomized controlled trial, 60 percent of treatment households continued to use the improved stoves three-years...
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Maternal and Child Health Inequalities in Ethiopia
Ambel, Alemayehu A. - 2017
Recent surveys show considerable progress in maternal and child health in Ethiopia. The improvement has been in health outcomes and health services coverage. The study examines how different groups have fared in this progress. It tracked 11 health outcome indicators and health interventions...
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