Pascaline Dupas: Design and effectiveness of public health subsidies | Human capital and growth
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 2016-07-07

In this lecture Pascaline Dupas of Stanford University looks at what prevent households from investing in health products that we know can save lives. Often the reason is simply poverty, however the international community is often reluctant to subsidize them enough to allow the poorest households to afford them.

The reasoning behind this is that if health products are free, they might end up in the hands of people who do not need them, or who will not use them. However Dupas finds that this assumption breaks down in the context of developing countries.


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Music CC BY 3.0: Kevin MacLeod - At The Shore