fertility decisions and investments in child health. We find that increased access to paved roads at the district-level leads to … districts with erstwhile lower levels of FLFP, the effects on fertility and child health are driven by paved road access causing …

sample of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) members invited to join community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes.Results: The …-campaign period.Interpretation & Conclusions: The results suggest that well-crafted health educational campaigns can be effective in … raising awareness and promoting health-enhancing practices in resource-poor settings. It also confirms that CBHI can serve as …

awareness of preventive health care. Under this program, the government mandates to connect all villages with a population of at … provision of roads increases the use of preventive health care by women and households. We further explore some of the potential … mechanisms that may lead to this increase in the health care usage. We show that there is an: a) increase in the awareness about …

Universal health coverage is a widely shared goal across lower-income countries. We conducted a large-scale, 4-year … significant impacts of insurance access or enrollment on health. Because there is substantial willingness-to-pay for insurance …

In the mid-2000s, India began rolling out large-scale, publicly-financed health insurance schemes mostly targeting the … period, Maharashtra did not introduce any at-scale health initiative that was not also introduced in Andhra Pradesh. Andhra … Pradesh other health initiatives were considerably less ambitious and costly than Aarogyasri. The paper finds that Andhra …