We summarize evidence from the growing body of randomized evaluations on health in developing countries from the … sensitive to price and convenience. Health education has a mixed record, often working in combination with incentives and … functioning through increasing salience rather than delivering information. The quality of health services in many developing …

We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established … epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities in three Kenyan counties were classified into 273 markets, and the … markets were then randomly allocated to treatment and control groups. Government inspectors visited health facilities and …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …