Do essential service packages benefit the poor? Preliminary evidence from Bangladesh

Do the Poor Benefit From More Generous Medicaid Physician Payments?∗

This paper examines how changes in Medicaid physician payments affect provision of care to both Medicaid patients and the uninsured. I find that payment increases generate an increase in supply of care to Medicaid patients but a more than offsetting decrease in supply to the uninsured. Using survey data, I additionally show that physicians encourage their uninsured patients to enroll in Medicai...

When Do the Poor Benefit From Growth, and Why?

This paper summarizes and synthesizes some literature that picks up and extends the discussion of Dollar and Kraay (2000). While most of the theory has been known for a long time, the empirical material that has gradually become available in the past decade or so in the form of household budget surveys has made it possible to paint a more detailed and nuanced picture than the one usually availa...

Indoor air quality for poor families: new evidence from Bangladesh.

Poor households in Bangladesh depend heavily on wood, dung and other biomass fuels for cooking. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the implications for indoor air pollution (IAP), drawing on new 24-h monitoring data for respirable airborne particulates (PM10). A stratified sample of 236 households was selected in Dhaka and Narayanganj, with a particular focus on fuel use, cooking locati...

Do Consumers Benefit from Supply Chain Intermediaries? Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Edible Oils Market in Bangladesh

Commodity traders are often the focus of popular resentment. Food price hikes in 2007-2008 resulted in protests and food riots, and spurred governments to regulate traders. In March 2011, the Bangladesh Government banned Delivery Order traders (DOTs) in the edible oils market, citing cartelization, and replaced them with a dealer’s network appointed by upstream refiners. The reform provides a n...

Asset Transfers and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra Poor’ program in Bangladesh December 31, 2013 PRELIMINARY, PLEASE DO NOT CITE