Title: Replication Data for: Governance and the effectiveness of public health subsidies: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda

Type Dataset Dizon-Ross, Rebecca, Dupas, Pascaline, Robinson, Jonathan (2018): Replication Data for: Governance and the effectiveness of public health subsidies: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/2ELQNE

Authors: Dizon-Ross, Rebecca (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) ; Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford University) ; Robinson, Jonathan (University of California at Santa Cruz) ; Dizon-Ross, Rebecca (University of Chicago) ; Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford University) ; Robinson, Jonathan (University of California at Santa Cruz) ;

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Summary

Distributing subsidized health products through existing health infrastructure could substantially and cost-effectively improve health in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor gov- ernance – in particular, limited health worker accountability – seriously undermines the effectiveness of subsidy programs. We audit targeted bed net distribution programs to quantify the extent of agency prob- lems. We find that around 80% of the eligible receive the subsidy as intended, and up to 15% of subsidies are leaked to ineligible people. Supplementing the program with simple financial or monitoring incentives for health workers does not improve performance further and is thus not cost-effective in this context.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/2ELQNE

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: May 01, 2018
• Updated: July 25, 2018

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Waiver

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electronic resource

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