- Title
- Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan
- Author(s)
- Abhijit Banerjee Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
- Angus Deaton Angus Deaton (Princeton University)
- Esther Duflo Esther Duflo (MIT)
- Abstract
- What are the determinants of the health and of well-being? Income and wealth are clearly part of the story, but does access to health-care have a large independent effect, as the advocates of more investment in health-care, such as the World Health Organization?s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2001)), have argued? This paper reports on a recent survey in a poor rural area of the state of Rajasthan in India intended to shed some light on this issue, where there was an attempt to use a set of interlocking surveys to collect data on health and economic status, as well as the public and private provision of health care.
- Creation Date
- 2003-12
- Section URL ID
- RPDS
- Paper Number
- Banerjee_Deaton_Duflo_Wealth_Health_and_Health_Services_in_Rural-_Rajasthan_AER.pdf
- URL
- https://rpds.princeton.edu/sites/rpds/files/media/banerjee_deaton_duflo_wealth_health_and_health_services_in_rural-_rajasthan_aer.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- I11, I12, O15
- Keyword(s)
- India
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 5