Inter-state disparities in health outcomes in rural India: An analysis using a stochastic production frontier approach

Development Policy Review

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-163

  Kathuria, Vinish ^a   Sankar, Deepa ^b  

^a MADRAS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (India)

^b WORLD BANK   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL AREA;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 14844312872     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2005.00280.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Baltagi, B. H. (2001) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data. 2nd edn. Chichester: Wiley Europe Publications.
2. Becker, G. S. (1992) 'The Economic Way of Looking at Life', Nobel Lecture, University of Chicago.
3. Dhawan, R. and Jochumzen, P. (2000) Stochastic Frontier Production Function with Error-In-Variables. Working Paper 99-07. Sweden: Lund University.
4. Evans, D. B., Tandon, A., Murray, C. J. L. and Lauer, J. A. (2001) The Comparative Efficiency of National Health Systems in Producing Health: An Analysis of 191 Countries. GPE Discussion Paper Series No. 29. Geneva: WHO, EIP/GPE/EQC.
5. Farrell, M. J. (1957) 'The Measurement of Productive Efficiency', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 120 (3):253-78.
6. Government of India (2002) India: National Human Development Report 2001. New Delhi: Oxford University Press for the Planning Commission.
7. Greene, W. H. (2000) Econometric Analysis. 4th edn. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall International Inc.
8. Hollingsworth, B. and Wildman, J. (2002) The Efficiency of Health Production: Re-estimating the WHO Panel Data Using Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches to Provide Additional Information. Working Paper No. 131. Melbourne: Monash University, Centre for Health Program Evaluation.
9. Jain, A. K. and Visaria, P. (eds) (1988) Infant Mortality in India: Differentials and Determinants. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
10. Jamison, D. T., Sandbu, M. and Wang, J. (2001) Cross Country Variation in Mortality Decline, 1962-87: The Role of Country Specific Technical Progress. CMH Working Paper No. WGI: 4. Geneva: WHO, Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.
11. Leiziger, D., Fay, M., Wodon, W. and Yepes, T. (2003) Achieving Millennium Development Goals - A Multi-Sectoral Approach Revisited. Washington, DC: World Bank.
12. Murray, C. J. L. and Frenk, J. (1999) A WHO Framework for Health System Performance Assessment: Global Programme on Evidence and Information for Policy. Washington, DC: World Bank.
13. Murray, C. J. L. and Frenk, J. (2001) 'World Health Report 2000: A Step towards Evidence-based Health Policy', The Lancet, 357: 1698-1700.
14. Pitt, M. M. and Lee, L. F. (1981) 'The Measurement and Sources of Technical Inefficiency in the Indonesian Weaving Industry', Journal of Development Economics, 9: 43-64.
15. Salomon, J. A., Mathers, C. D., Murray, C. J. L., and Ferguson, B. (2001) Method for Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy Uncertainty Analysis. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Working Paper No. 10. Geneva: WHO.
16. Schmidt, P. and Sickles, R. C. (1984) 'Production Frontiers and Panel Data', Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2 (4): 309-16.
17. Schultz, T. W. (1963) The Economic Value of Education. New York: Columbia University Press.
18. Wang, J., Jamison, D. T., Bos, E., Preker, A. and Peaboy, J. (1999) Measuring Country Performance on Health: Selected Indicators for 115 countries. Human Development Network, Health, Nutrition and Population Studies. Washington, DC: World Bank.
19. World Bank (2001) India, Raising the Sights: Better Health Systems for India's Poor. New Delhi: World Bank, Health, Nutrition, Population Sector Unit.
20. World Health Organisation (2000) World Health Report. Health Systems: Improving Performance. Geneva: WHO.