The Effect of Indian Community Health Workers: Multiple Tasks and Few Results

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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.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2016

Author	Walsh, Mark
Primary advisor	Miller, Grant
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	India
Subject	Accredited Social Health Activist program
Subject	healthcare
Subject	rural
Genre	Thesis

Related item	Title 2016 Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/np181zx7873

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Preferred Citation: 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

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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