The present paper provides new causal evidence that private practice of public health professionals may encourage moonlighting with implications for the provision of public health services. Our identification strategy relies on the introduction of the 1997 Ministry of Health Regulation 916 in...

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Performance-based contracting is particularly challenging in health care, where multiple agents, information asymmetries and other market failures compound the critical contracting concern of multitasking. As performance-based contracting grows in developing countries, it is critical to better...

Background: Against the backdrop of systemic inefficiency in the public health care system and the theoretical claims that markets result in performance and efficiency improvement, developing countries' governments have been rapidly commercializing health care delivery. This paper seeks to...

Background: Against the backdrop of systemic inefficiency in the public health care system and the theoretical claims that markets result in performance and efficiency improvement, developing countries' governments have been rapidly commercializing health care delivery. This paper seeks to...

Decisions on investing in health as well as other policies require deciding how to best allocate available resources - recognizing that using labor, materials, and other resources for one purpose means that they cannot be used for other purposes. Approaches for economic evaluation, including...

The purpose of report is to review the situation of state ownership and its management. The guidelines for corporate governance of state-owned enterprises of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2015, are used as the basis for good practices. The review includes 178...

We study the effects of Massachusetts' healthcare reform on individuals' subjective well-being. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find that the reform significantly improved Massachusetts residents' overall life-satisfaction. This result is robust to various...

Access to primary care during early-life can have substantial benefits in developing countries. We evaluate the long-run impact of the Village Midwife Program in Indonesia. We utilize the rollout-variation of the program and link individual background and community characteristics in early...