Economic Challenges in Africa 4020S (Honours)

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:

  • The Price is Wrong, J-PAL Bulletin, April 2011

  • Know Your Status, J-PAL Briefcase, August 2011

  • 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