Replication data for: Quality and Accountability in Health Care Delivery: Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jishnu Das; Alaka Holla; Aakash Mohpal; Karthik Muralidharan

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Das, Jishnu, Holla, Alaka, Mohpal, Aakash, and Muralidharan, Karthik. Replication data for: Quality and Accountability in Health Care Delivery: Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113087V1

Project Description

Summary: We present unique audit-study evidence on health care quality in rural India, and find that most private providers lacked medical qualifications, but completed more checklist items than public providers and recommended correct treatments equally often. Among doctors with public and private practices, all quality metrics were higher in their private clinics. Market prices are positively correlated with checklist completion and correct treatment, but also with unnecessary treatments. However, public sector salaries are uncorrelated with quality. A simple model helps interpret our findings: Where public-sector effort is low, the benefits of higher diagnostic effort among private providers may outweigh costs of potential overtreatment.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      H42 Publicly Provided Private Goods
      I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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