Outline
1. Micro Health Insurance
- Required Readings:
Jutting, JohannesP., (2004). "Do Community-based Health Insurance Schemes Improve PoorPeople's Access to Health Care? Evidence From Rural Senegal," World Development, vol. 32(2), pages273-288, February
Lynne MillerFranco, FrançoisPathé Diop, Clara RBurgert, AllisonGamble Kelley, Marty Makinen,and Cheick HamedTidiane Simpara (2008). Effects of mutual health organizations onuse of priority health-care services in urban and rural Mali: a case–controlstudy. Bulletin of World HealthOrganization. 86(11): 830–838.
Gilson L. (1997)The Lessons of User Fee Experience in Africa. Health Policy and Planning. 12:273-285.
2. Education
- Introduction Slides
- Required Readings:
Case, Anne and Angus Deaton, 1999. "School inputs and educational outcomes in South Africa", The Quarterly Journal of Economics 14, no. 3
Lloyd Cynthia and Ann Blanc, 1996. "Children's Schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Fathers, Mothers, and Others", Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 265-298
Glewwe, Paul, Michael Kremer and Sylvie Moulin, 2009, "Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Testscores in Kenya", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1:1, 112–135
3. Health
- Introduction Slides
- Required Readings:
Thornton, Rebecca, 2008. "The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status", American Economic Review, 98:5, 1829-1863
Cohen, Jessica and Pascaline Dupas, 2010. "Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment", Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (1), pp.1-45
- Additional Readings:
Rodrik, Dani, 2008, "The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment, but How Shall We Learn?", Working Paper Series rwp08-055, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Dupas, Pascaline, 2011. "Health Behavior in Developing Countries", Prepared for the Annual Review of Economics (vol. 3)
Dupas, Pascaline, 2011. "Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (3), pp. 1-34
Bailey, Robert C. et al., 2007. "Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: a randomised controlled trial", Lancet 2007; 369: 643–56
4. Corruption
- Required Readings:
Gupta, Sanjeev, Hamid Davoodi and Erwin Tiongson, 2000. "Corruption and the Provision of Health Care and Education Services", IMF Working Paper, Vol. , pp. 1-33
Svensson, Jakob, 2003. "Who Must Pay Bribes and How Much? Evidence from a Cross-Section of Firms", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1