IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Using Subsidies to Enhance Access to Maternal and Newborn Health Care in Remote Villages
Antonella Bancalari (IFS), joint with Pedro Bernal, Maria Fernanda Garcia, Pablo Ibarraran, Emmanuelle Monin, and Paola Zuniga (Inter-American Development Bank)
Thursday 06 March 2025 14:00 - 15:00
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About this event
We investigate how reducing remoteness constraints affects access to quality maternal and newborn health care. Through a field experiment, we provided transportation and accommodation vouchers to impoverished pregnant women and their chosen companions in very remote Nicaraguan villages –on average, five hours from the nearest childbirth center. These subsidies increased the utilization of quality antenatal care, institutional delivery, and quality postnatal care. Five years after the intervention began, neonatal and infant mortality rates, as well as fertility rates, declined in treated communities. We high-light the interaction between demand-side subsidies and supply-side improvements in driving these effects.
This seminar series is jointly organized by the IFS, STICERD, and UCL.
IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress seminars are held on Thursdays in term time at 14:00-15:00, at the IFS, unless specified otherwise.
Seminar organisers: Oriana Bandiera (STICERD, LSE), Imran Rasul (UCL), Britta Augsburg (IFS) and Jonathan Weigel (LSE).
For further information please contact Britta Augsburg: britta_a@ifs.org.uk.
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