Do Health Care Providers Respond to Demand-Side Incentives? Evidence from Indonesia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Triyana, Margaret
• 署名单位: Nanyang Technological University; University of Notre Dame
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20140048
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 255-288
• 关键词: Conditional cash transfers; birth-weight; transfer program; empowering women; field experiment; prenatal-care; QUALITY; bangladesh; insurance; outcomes

摘要

This paper exploits the subdistrict randomization of Indonesia's household Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program to analyze how the program affects the local health care market. The CCT program is associated with increased use of midwives as the main delivery attendants. The program is also associated with a 10 percent increase in both the number of midwives and the delivery fees charged by midwives in treated communities. Program participants report receiving a higher quality of prenatal care. This is due, however, not to improvements in quality of care in the market, but to increased utilization among program participants.