It remains unclear whether governments can improve health outcomes by solely increasing public spending on health care. In this paper, we provide first causal evidence on the impact of an increase in public spending on primary care on health care-seeking and mortality. We employ an event study...

We measure the adoption of management practices in over 220 private for-profit and non-profit health facilities in 64 districts across Tanzania and link these data to process quality of care metrics, assessed using undercover standardised patients and clinical observations. We find that better...

We use panel data on household consumption combined with information taken from the medical records of women who gave birth in health facilities to explore the economic consequences of maternal ill health, in the context of a rural population in Bangladesh. We find that households are able to...

This paper studies the health effects of one of the world's largest demand-side financial incentive programes - India's Janani Suraksha Yojana. Our difference-in-difference estimates exploit heterogeneity in the timing of the introduction of the financial incentive programs across districts. We...

We use novel data on a cohort of female sex workers in Senegal to examine whether a large anticipated shock influences risky sexual behaviour. We study the effect of Tabaski, the most important Islamic festival celebrated in Senegal, in which most households purchase an animal for sacrifice. We...

This systematic review investigates the role of economic shocks in explaining HIV transmission through risky sexual behaviors. With natural disasters and global economic shocks becoming more prevalent and HIV disproportionately affecting young women in low- and middle-income countries,...