Dupas, Pascaline;
Jain, Radhika;
(2024)
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India.
American Economic Review
, 114
(10)
pp. 3345-3383.
10.1257/aer.20230521.
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Abstract
We document large gender disparities within a government program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care. We show that care is not free in practice and higher costs are associated with larger disparities. Lowering care costs increases female utilization but does not reduce gender disparities because marginal beneficiaries are as likely to be male as inframarginals. Long-term exposure to local female leaders reduces disparities by addressing factors lowering female care. In the presence of gender bias, subsidizing social services may fail to address gender inequalities without actions that specifically target females. (JEL H51, I12, I13, I14, J16, O15)
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1257/aer.20230521 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20230521 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Economics, Business & Economics, POLICY EXPERIMENT, NUTRITION, BIAS, CARE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198787 |
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