Thesis title: Quality and Accountability in Health Care Delivery: Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India (Das, J., Holla, A., Mohpal, A., & Muralidharan, K., American Economic Review 2016, 106(12): 3765 -- 3799)

Time: Friday, March 8, 2019 12:00-13:30

Location: Room 610, Mingde Main Building

Speaker: Yuan Chenyu, 2018 graduate student of Renmin University of China

Abstract: We present unique audit-study evidence on health care quality in rural India, and find that most private providers lacked medical qualifications, but completed more checklist items than public providers and recommended correct treatments equally often. Among doctors with public and private practices, all quality metrics were higher in their private clinics. Market prices are positively correlated with checklist completion and correct treatment, but also with unnecessary treatments. However, public sector salaries are uncorrelated with quality. A simple model helps interpret our findings: Where public-sector effort is low, the benefits of higher diagnostic effort among private providers may outweigh costs of potential overtreatment.

Moderator: Associate Professor Liu Xiaolu

The Finance Literature Seminar is sponsored by the Department of Finance, School of Finance and Finance, Renmin University of China. The graduate students of the Department of Finance analyze the classic or frontier literature of finance, and form theoretical thoughts and systematic views on hot issues in the field of finance. The main topics of the seminar include: government behavior, fiscal system, tax system and macro economy.