Improving Maternal Health Using Incentives for Mothers and Health Care Workers: Evidence from India
Debnath, S (2018) Improving Maternal Health Using Incentives for Mothers and Health Care Workers: Evidence from India. Economic Development and Cultural Change.
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This paper studies the role of incentives for mothers and healthcare workers in the use of maternal and child health services. Using variations in birthrate, eligibility, transfer size for a conditional cash transfer program in India, I find that overall delivery at a health care facility for eligible women increased by five percentage points. The incentives also significantly increased the use of pre- and post-natal care services and immunization. The program reduced early-neonatal deaths but had no impact on late-neonatal morality. I also find that larger incentives to the health workers are associated with relatively higher utilization rates compared to larger incentives to mothers.
Affiliation: | Indian School of Business |
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ISB Creators ORCiD Debnath, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8395-8836 |
Item Type: | Article |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Incentives, Maternal Health, Conditional Cash Transfer |
Subjects: | Health care and delivery |
Depositing User: | Veeramani R |
Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2019 13:40 |
Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2019 13:40 |
URI: | http://eprints.exchange.isb.edu/id/eprint/693 |
Publisher URL: | https://doi.org/10.1086/703083 |
Publisher OA policy: | http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0013-0079/ |
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