Age at Marriage, Women's Education, and Mother and Child Outcomes in Bangladesh

发展中世界的母亲和儿童的健康状况不佳。 众所周知，几十年来，但实际可行的全社会解决方案仍然难以捉摸。通过评估那些寻求 通过不同的渠道在不同的背景下改善健康，这项研究计划试图确定四个 这样的解决方案。这些项目不仅因为它们的目标而团结在一起，而且在其严格的方法上也是如此： 社会项目的对照实验。 项目I审查了孟加拉国卫生服务需求的基本驱动因素的因果关系。 这个项目将追踪教育、结婚年龄和妇女对资源的控制的因果影响 通过研究一项由三个主要部分组成的计划的长期影响，对妇女和儿童的结果进行研究： 鼓励推迟结婚、教育支持和生计培训。 项目II评估村级激励是否可以促进集体行动，以改善对 获得卫生服务的机会。它考察了印尼政府计划Generasi在以下方面的影响 哪些村庄获得年度集体补助金，条件是村庄在12个村庄中的每个村庄的表现 有针对性的健康和教育指标。 项目III审查了在低成本的情况下补贴保健品时如何控制腐败 需求。它将评估价格对免费驱虫蚊帐的接受和使用的影响。 和净水工具包，并检查价格对腐败的影响。然后，它将评估三个 减少腐败的干预措施：审计、市场竞争和社区赋权。 项目四审查小额供资提供的灾难性健康保险计划的影响 该组织向其在印度的客户提供服务，包括医院分娩。该项目将研究这一点的影响 关于接受机构提供和健康冲击对家庭经济的影响的方案 福利。它将比较这一计划的影响与政府为妇女提供的计划的影响 对机构交付的财政激励。

The poor health outcomes experienced by mothers and children in the developing world have been well known for decades, but practical, society-wide solutions remain elusive. By evaluating projects that seek to improve health through different channels in diverse contexts, this research program seeks to identify four such solutions. These projects are united not only by their goals, but in their rigorous methodology: controlled experiments of social programs. Project I examines the causal effect of fundamental drivers of demand for health services in Bangladesh. This project will trace the causal impact of education, age at marriage, and women's control over resources on women and children's outcomes by studying the long run implications of a program with three main parts: incentives to delay marriage, education support, and livelihood training. Project II assesses whether village-level incentive can foster collective action to improve demand for and access to health services. It examines the impact of a government program in Indonesia, Generasi, under which villages receive an annual block grant conditional on the village's performance on each of the 12 targeted health and education indicators. Project III examines how corruption can be controlled when subsidizing health product in a context of low demand. It will evaluate the impact of prices on the take up and usage of free insecticide treated bed nets and water purification kits and examine the impact of prices on corruption. It will then evaluate three interventions to reduce this corruption: auditing; market competition, and community empowerment. Project IV examines the impact of a catastrophic health insurance scheme offered by a microfinance organization to its clients in India, which covers hospital delivery. The project will study the impact of this program on the take up of institutional delivery, and on the impact of health shocks on household economic welfare. It will compare the impact of this program with that of a government program that gives women financial incentives for institutional delivery.