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Working Papers
Risk Perceptions and Protective Behaviors: Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic
M. Kate Bundorf, Jill DeMatteis , Grant Miller, Maria Polyakova, Jailu L. Streeter , Jonathan Wivagg
Nation Bureau of Economic Research,
2021
April 1, 2021
Working Papers
Family Planning and Fertility Behavior: Evidence from Twentieth Century Malaysia
Kim Babiarz, Jiwon Lee, Grant Miller, Tey Nai Peng, Christine Valente
Center for Global Development,
2017
December 7, 2017
There is longstanding debate about the contribution of family planning programs to fertility decline. Studying the staggered introduction of family planning across Malaysia during the 1960s and 1970s, we find modest responses in fertility behavior. Higher (but not lower) parity birth hazards declined by one-quarter—but imply only a 5 percent decline in the overall annual probability of birth. Age at marriage rose by 0.48 years, but birth spacing conditional on this did not otherwise change.
Working Papers
Population Policy, Fertility Decline, and Sex Selection: New Evidence from China under Mao
Grant Miller, Kim Babiarz, Paul Ma, Shige Song
Working Paper,
2017
April 10, 2017
Working Papers
Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
Grant Miller, A. Mushfiq Mobarak
National Bureau of Economic Research,
2017
April 10, 2017
Working Papers
Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy
Grant Miller, Marcella Alsan, Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya, Valentina Conti
2017
March 29, 2017
Working Papers
Municipal Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries: Evidence from Mexico’s Programa Agua Limpia
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Grant Miller, Alfonso Miranda, Atheendar S. Venkataramani
National Bureau of Economic Research,
2017
March 29, 2017
Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection often does not produce equivalent benefits in developing countries today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing an abrupt, large-scale municipal water disinfection program in Mexico in 1991 that increased the share of Mexico’s population receiving chlorinated water from 55% to 85% within six months.
Working Papers
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Maternal Health Care in India
Grant Miller, Katherine Donato, Manoj Mohanan, Yulya Truskinovsky, Marcos Vera-Hernandez
2017
March 29, 2017
Journal Articles
Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India
Katherine Donato, Grant Miller, Yulya Truskinovsky, Manoj Mohanan, Marcos Vera-Hernández
American Economic Review,
2017
March 21, 2017
We study how agents respond to performance incentives according to key personality traits (conscientiousness and neuroticism) through a field experiment offering financial incentives for improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes to rural Indian doctors. More conscientious providers performed better – but improved less – under performance incentives. The effect of the performance incentives was also smaller for providers with higher levels of neuroticism.
Journal Articles
Effect of a Social Franchising and Telemedicine Programme on Health Care Providers’ Knowledge of, and Quality of Care for, Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in Bihar, India
Manoj Mohanan, Soledad Giardili, Veena Das, Tracy L. Rabin, Sunil S. Raj, Jeremy I. Schwartz, Aparna Seth, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Grant Miller, Marcos Vera-Hernández
Bulletin of the World Health Organization,
2017
March 20, 2017
Objective To evaluate the impact on the quality of the care provided for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia in Bihar, India of a large-scale, social franchising and telemedicine programme– the World Health Partners’ Sky Program.
Working Papers
Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes
Christine Valente, Grant Miller
Demography (conditionally accepted),
2016
February 26, 2016
Abstract:
There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. What is required is a large-scale intervention that alters the supply (or full price) of one or the other – and importantly, does so in isolation (reproductive health programs
Journal Articles
Intended and Unintended Consequences of China's Zero Markup Drug Policy
Grant Miller, Shaoping Li, Scott Rozelle, Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang
Health Affairs,
2015
August 1, 2015
Since economic liberalization in the late 1970s, China’s health care providers have grown heavily reliant on revenue from drugs, which they both prescribe and sell. To curb abuse and to promote the availability, safety, and appropriate use of essential drugs, China introduced its national essential drug list in 2009 and implemented a zero markup policy designed to decouple provider compensation from drug prescription and sales. We collected and analyzed representative data from China’s township health centers and their catchment-area populations both before and after the reform.
Working Papers
Can Bureaucrats Really be Paid Like CEOs? School Administrator Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China
Renfu Luo, Grant Miller, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia, Marcos Vera-Hernandez
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),
2015
June 30, 2015
Abstract
Working Papers
Family Planning Program Effects: A Review of Evidence from Microdata
Grant Miller, Kimberly Singer Babiarz
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences,
2015
January 1, 2015
Abstract:
This article reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women’s health and socioeconomic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and labor force participation), and children’s health and socio-economic outcomes throughout the life cycle.
Journal Articles
An Exploration of China's Mortality Decline under Mao: A Provincial Analysis, 1950-1980
Grant Miller,
Grant Miller, Karen Eggleston, Kim Singer Babiarz, Qiong Zhang
Population Studies (Cambridge),
2014
December 13, 2014
Between 1950 and 1980, China experienced the most rapid sustained increase in life expectancy of any population in documented global history. We know of no study that has quantitatively assessed the relative importance of the various explanations proposed for this gain in survival. We have created and analysed a new, province-level panel data set spanning the decades between 1950 and 1980 by combining historical information from China's public health archives, official provincial yearbooks, and infant and child mortality records contained in the 1988 National Survey of Fertility and Contraception. Although exploratory, our results suggest that gains in school enrolment and public health campaigns together are associated with 55–70 per cent of China's dramatic reductions in infant and under-5 mortality during our study period. These results underscore the importance of non-medical determinants of population health, and suggest that, in some circumstances, general education of the population may amplify the effectiveness of public health interventions.
Working Papers
The Stanford-India Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) Study: Early Findings
Grant Miller,
Grant Miller, Kim Singer Babiarz, Nomita Divi, S.V. Mahadevan
Stanford University,
2014
September 1, 2014
Journal Articles
Risk Protection, Service Use, and Health Outcomes Under Colombia's Health Insurance Program for the Poor
Grant Miller, Diana Pinto, Marcos Vera-Hernández
American Economic Journal,
2013
December 31, 2013
Journal Articles
The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
Jay Bhattacharya, Christina Gathmann, Grant Miller
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,
2013
December 31, 2013
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia’s 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the “Russian Mortality Crisis”). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol- related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper investigates a different explanation: the demise of the 1985-1988 Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign. We use archival sources to build a new oblast-year data set spanning 1970-2000 and find that:
Journal Articles
Impact of the Chiranjeevi Yojana Program on Institutional Deliveries and Birth Outcomes in Gujarat, India
Sebastian Bauhoff, Manoj Mohanan, Gerard La Forgia, Kim Singer Babiarz, Kultar Singh, Grant Miller
Bulletin of the World Health Organization,
2013
December 9, 2013
Journal Articles
Learning about New Technologies through Social Networks: Experimental Evidence on Non-Traditional Stoves in Bangladesh
Grant Miller, Mushfiq Mobarak
Marketing Science,
2013
September 1, 2013
Journal Articles
"Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low-and Middle-Income Country Health Programs," in Tony Cuyler (ed.)
Grant Miller, Kim Singer Babiarz
Encyclopedia of Health Economics, Elsevier,
2013
April 1, 2013
Journal Articles
HIV Development Assistance and Adult Mortality in Africa
Eran Bendavid, CB Holmes, Jay Bhattacharya, Grant Miller
Journal of the American Medical Association,
2012
December 31, 2012
Context The effect of global health initiatives on population health is uncertain. Between 2003 and 2008, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest initiative ever devoted to a single disease, operated intensively in 12 African focus countries. The initiative's effect on all-cause adult mortality is unknown.
Objective To determine whether PEPFAR was associated with relative changes in adult mortality in the countries and districts where it operated most intensively.
Journal Articles
Impact of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme on Township Health Centers
Kim Singer Babiarz, Grant Miller, Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle
Health Affairs,
2012
December 31, 2012
Journal Articles
HIV Development Assistance and Adult Mortality in Africa
Eran Bendavid, Charles Holmes, Jay Bhattacharya, Grant Miller
Journal of the American Medical Association,
2012
December 31, 2012
Context The effect of global health initiatives on population health is uncertain. Between 2003 and 2008, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest initiative ever devoted to a single disease, operated intensively in 12 African focus countries. The initiative's effect on all-cause adult mortality is unknown.
Objective To determine whether PEPFAR was associated with relative changes in adult mortality in the countries and districts where it operated most intensively.
Journal Articles
PEPFAR and Adult Mortality - Reply
Eran Bendavid, Charles Holmes, Grant Miller
JAMA,
2012
September 12, 2012
Journal Articles
Low demand for nontraditional cookstove technologies
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Puneet Dwivedi, Robert Bailis, Lynn Hildemann, Grant Miller
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
2012
June 11, 2012