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Effects of state-level public spending on health on the mortality probability in India

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  • Mansour Farahani

    () (Harvard School of Public Health)

  • S. V. Subramanian

    (Harvard School of Public Health)

  • David Canning

    () (Harvard School of Public Health)

Abstract

This study uses the second National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2) of India to estimate the effect of state public health spending on mortality across all age groups, controlling for individual, household, and state-level covariates. We use a state’s gross fiscal deficit as an instrument for its health spending. Our study shows a 10 % increase in public spending on health in India decreases the average probability of death by about 2%, with effects mainly on the young, the elderly, and women. Other major factors affecting mortality are rural residence, household poverty, and access to toilet facilities.

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Paper provided by Program on the Global Demography of Aging in its series PGDA Working Papers with number 5009.

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Date of creation: Jun 2009
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Keywords: Public spending; health; mortality probability; India;

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  1. Biswajit Maitra & C.K. Mukhopadhyay, 2012. "Public spending on education, health care and economic growth in selected countries of Asia and the Pacific," Asia-Pacific Development Journal, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), vol. 19(2), pages 19-48, December.

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