The paper purports to examine the rationale in subsidizing healthcare in the developing economies solely from the … imperfection and a non-traded sector providing healthcare services. Consumption of healthcare services emanates positive … externalities and raises the efficiency of workers. There is provision for providing public subsidy on the consumption of health …

This paper studies the efficiency of two subsidy schemes widely used in health-care systems: unconditional and … queuing delay whereas private service is provided without delay. For each subsidy scheme we consider two information regimes … derive customers' equilibrium choices between private and public systems and investigate the optimal design for each subsidy …

We study how healthcare subsidies and improved information affect over- and under-use of primary healthcare in a … randomized control trial of 1544 children in Mali. In a dynamic model of healthcare demand, misuse relative to policymaker … increase demand by over 250%, but overuse is rare with or without the subsidy. Information, contrary to intent, appears to …