Health Behavior in Developing Countries

Pascaline Dupas

Annual Review of Economics, 2011, vol. 3, issue 1, 425-449

Abstract: The disease burden in low-income countries is extremely high. Malaria, respiratory infections, diarrhea, AIDS, and other diseases are estimated to kill more than 15 million people each year, most of them children. Yet the great majority of these diseases can be prevented or treated. This article reviews microeconomic studies of health-seeking behavior in low-income countries. Factors examined include information, peers, liquidity constraints, and nonrational preferences, such as present bias. I then discuss the implications for policy, including the scope for mandates, subsidies, and incentives.

Keywords: adoption; prevention; market failures; subsidy; incentive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 I10 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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