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

发展中国家的母亲和儿童所经历的不良健康结果一直是好的， 几十年来，这是众所周知的，但实际的，全社会的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，这项研究计划旨在确定四个 这样的解决方案。这些项目不仅通过其目标，而且通过其严格的方法来统一： 社会项目的受控实验。 项目一审查了孟加拉国卫生服务需求的基本驱动因素的因果影响。 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 通过研究一个方案的长期影响，对妇女和儿童的成果进行评估，该方案有三个主要部分： 鼓励推迟结婚、教育支助和生计培训。 项目二评估村一级的奖励措施是否能够促进集体行动， 获得保健服务。它审查了印度尼西亚政府计划的影响， 哪些乡村每年可获发整笔拨款，但须视乎乡村在12项 有针对性的健康和教育指标。 项目三审查了在低收入背景下补贴保健产品时如何控制腐败。 需求它将评估价格对接受和使用免费驱虫蚊帐的影响 以及净水设备，并研究价格对腐败的影响。然后，它将评估三个 减少这种腐败的干预措施：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 该组织向印度的客户提供服务，其中包括医院分娩。该项目将研究这一影响 关于接受住院分娩和健康冲击对家庭经济影响的方案 福利它将比较这一计划的影响与政府计划，使妇女 为机构提供财政奖励。

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.