to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in … household being above and below the poverty line. The paper provides an overview of the methods and issues arising in each case …

This paper exploits the staggered rollout of Vietnam?s hospital autonomization policy to estimate its impacts on … several key health sector outcomes including hospital efficiency, use of hospital care, and out-of-pocket spending. The … authors use six years of panel data covering all Vietnam?s public hospitals, and three stacked cross-sections of household …

the introduction of both broad and detailed case-based payment systems has improved efficiency in acute hospital care …

outbreak. This paper provides a method to quantify the impact of flooding on hospital access and other critical facilities …

The effects of urban transport policies on household welfare are a broadly understudied topic in developing countries …. The paper uses pooled cross-sectional household survey data, analyzed by block, over 2008-15 and a difference …

detailed individual-level information from household surveys of several countries in the region. The paper widens an ongoing …

paper finds that through bulk purchasing the average household could spend 8.7 percent less without reducing purchasing …

Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …

between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the …

structure of their houses, household assets and appliances, and vehicles. With recurrent floods, they continue to bear the cost …