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TY  - JOUR 
TI  - Putting a band-aid on a corpse: Incentives for nurses in the Indian public health care system 
AU  - Banerjee, Abhijit V. 
AU  - Glennerster, Rachel 
AU  - Duflo, Esther 
T2  - Journal of the European Economic Association 
AB  - The public Indian health care system is plagued by high staff absence, low effort by providers, and limited use by potential beneficiaries who prefer private alternatives. This artice reports the results of an experiment carried out with a district administration and a nongovernmental organization (NGO). The presence of government nurses in government public health facilities (subcenters and aid-posts) was recorded by the NGO, and the government took steps to punish the worst delinquents. Initially, the monitoring system was extremely effective. This shows that nurses are responsive to financial incentives. But after a few months, the local health administration appears to have undermined the scheme from the inside by letting the nurses claim an increasing number of “exempt days.” Eighteen months after its inception, the program had become completely ineffective. 
DA  - 2008/// 
PY  - 2008 
DO  - 10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.487 
DP  - PubMed Central 
VL  - 6 
IS  - 2-3 
SP  - 487 
EP  - 500 
J2  - J Eur Econ Assoc 
SN  - 1542-4766 
ST  - Putting a Band-Aid on a Corpse 
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826809/ 
Y2  - 2020/12/21/15:17:29 
L1  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826809/pdf/nihms84074.pdf 
L2  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826809/ 
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TY  - JOUR 
TI  - Putting a Band-Aid on a Corpse: Incentives for Nurses in the Indian Public Health Care System 
AU  - Banerjee, Abhijit V. 
AU  - Duflo, Esther 
AU  - Glennerster, Rachel 
T2  - Journal of the European Economic Association 
AB  - The public Indian health care system is plagued by high staff absence, low effort by providers, and limited use by potential beneficiaries who prefer private alternatives. This artice reports the results of an experiment carried out with a district administration and a nongovernmental organization (NGO). The presence of government nurses in government public health facilities (subcenters and aid-posts) was recorded by the NGO, and the government took steps to punish the worst delinquents. Initially, the monitoring system was extremely effective. This shows that nurses are responsive to financial incentives. But after a few months, the local health administration appears to have undermined the scheme from the inside by letting the nurses claim an increasing number of “exempt days.” Eighteen months after its inception, the program had become completely ineffective. 
DA  - 2008/05/01/ 
PY  - 2008 
DO  - 10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.487 
DP  - Silverchair 
VL  - 6 
IS  - 2-3 
SP  - 487 
EP  - 500 
J2  - Journal of the European Economic Association 
SN  - 1542-4766 
ST  - Putting a Band-Aid on a Corpse 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.487 
Y2  - 2022/04/07/19:13:36 
L1  - https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2826809?pdf=render 
L1  - https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2826809?pdf=render 
L2  - https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article-abstract/6/2-3/487/2295851 
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