Spillover Impacts of a Reproductive Health Program on Elderly Women in Rural Bangladesh

This paper extends the program evaluation literature by investigating intra-household externalities generated by a reproductive health program, administered as a quasi-control experiment in rural Bangladesh. Although the program targeted only mothers and children in randomly selected treatment areas, using a reduced form demand approach and data from Matlab Health and Socio-economic Survey of 1996, we found a significantly positive spillover impact of this reproductive health program on the health of the never-targeted elderly women.

Anoshua ChaudhuriEmail:

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Anoshua Chaudhuri   is an Assistant Professor of Economics at San Francisco State University, California. Her research studies the impact of health and social policy on household outcomes with particular focus on the health of elderly and children. She teaches courses in Health Economics and Economics of Gender and Family.