TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Vera-Herna¡ndez, Marcos
AU  - 2024
AU  - Andrew, Alison
TI  - Incentivizing Demand for Supply-Constrained Care: Institutional Birth in India
SN  - 0034-6535
PB  - The Review of Economics and Statistics
KW  -  Birth Outcomes
KW  -  Health
KW  -  Institutional Delivery
KW  -  Perinatal Mortality
KW  - Institutional Birth
N2  - If overcrowding harms health care quality, the impacts of encouraging more people to use services are not obvious. Impacts will depend on whether marginal entrants benefit and whether they benefit enough to offset the congestion externalities imposed on inframarginal users. We develop a general-equilibrium model that formalizes these ideas. We examine them empirically by studying JSY, a program in India that paid women to give birth in medical facilities. We find evidence that JSY increased perinatal mortality in areas with low health-system capacity, was particularly harmful in more-complex births, reduced the quality of facilities' postnatal care, and generated harmful spillovers onto other services
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01206
ER  -