Efficiency and Productivity of Public Health Expenditures in Reducing Child Mortality in Emerging Market Economies

Pinak Sarkar () and Nutan Shashi Tigga ()
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Pinak Sarkar: Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management
Nutan Shashi Tigga: O P Jindal University

A chapter in Advances in the Theory and Practice of Data Envelopment Analysis, 2025, pp 350-365 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this study, we measure the efficiency and productivity of public health expenditures in improving child mortality outcomes in ten major emerging economies of the world. We use bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the bootstrap Malmquist productivity index (MPI) to measure the progress of efficiency and productivity from 2010–2020. Furthermore, we test the statistical significance of the progress in efficiency and productivity using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. For robustness of the efficiency and productivity estimates, we report the confidence intervals and test the statistical significance of the scores across countries. The average bias-corrected overall technical efficiency score of 0.3381 suggests that if inefficiency could be eliminated, child survival could be improved by 66% in these countries. The MPI results suggest that over the study period, on average, productivity improved for all these nations except for Saudi Arabia and South Korea. At the policy level, the study suggested that an increase in health expenditure is not sufficient to improve health outcomes unless efficiency and productivity are achieved.

Keywords: Health expenditure; bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA); bootstrap Malmquist productivity index (MPI); emerging economies; under-five mortality rate; neonatal mortality rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-98177-7_24

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