The Effect of Indian Community Health Workers: Multiple Tasks and Few Results
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Government of India’s Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) program is the largest community health worker program in the world and is credited with improving the healthcare of rural Indians. However, there have been no comprehensive quantitative evaluations of this program. This paper exploits the early rollout of the ASHA program in high focus states to identify the effect of the ASHA program using a year and state fixed effects model. I find no evidence that the ASHA program had a positive effect on health inputs or health outcomes. I propose that the ASHA program's performance payment scheme may create a multitasking problem that explains this absence of a measureable effect.
Description
Type of resource | text |
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Date created | May 2016 |
Creators/Contributors
Author | Walsh, Mark | |
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Primary advisor | Miller, Grant | |
Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Economics |
Subjects
Subject | Stanford Department of Economics |
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Subject | India |
Subject | Accredited Social Health Activist program |
Subject | healthcare |
Subject | rural |
Genre | Thesis |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/np181zx7873 |
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- Walsh, Mark. (2016). The Effect of Indian Community Health Workers: Multiple Tasks and Few Results. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/np181zx7873
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