This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives … to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in …

This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives … to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in …

explored the association between mothers' social capital and child health. We examine the relationship between mothers' access … to social capital via participation in community activities and their children's health. Instrumental variable estimator …Social capital has been shown to be positively associated with a range of health outcomes, yet few studies have …

Maternal health remains one of the top priorities of the Government of Indonesia (GoI) and the Ministry of Health (MoH …) because reductions in maternal mortality have been slows. The current Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) for Indonesia is 228 but … (TBA) and delivering at home are contributory factors to maternal mortality in Indonesia. In collecting data from verbal …

Poor household water supply and sanitation can affect maternal and newborn health outcomes through several pathways … (IFLS), we investigate the relationship between water and sanitation and outcomes along the course of a pregnancy - health …