Political agency and public healthcare: Evidence from India

Joan Costa-Font and Divya Parmar

No wp-2016-135, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform—the National Rural Health Mission that introduced village health and sanitation committees—provide a unique opportunity to study the effects of the strengthening of the political agency on collective healthcare decision-making in rural areas. We use data from the District Level Household Survey and take advantage of the heterogeneity of maternal and child healthcare use, before and after the introduction of village health and sanitation committees.

Keywords: Decentralization; Direct democracy; Immunization; Maternal healthcare; Public healthcare; Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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