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Taking The Health Aid Debate To The Subnational Level: The Impact And Allocation Of Foreign Health Aid In Malawi, Robert Marty, Carrie B. Dolan, Matthias Leu, Daniel Runfola
Taking The Health Aid Debate To The Subnational Level: The Impact And Allocation Of Foreign Health Aid In Malawi, Robert Marty, Carrie B. Dolan, Matthias Leu, Daniel Runfola
Carrie Dolan
Objective: Cross-national studies provide inconclusive results as to the effectiveness of foreign health aid. We highlight a novel application of using subnational data to evaluate aid impacts, using Malawi as a case study.
Design: We employ two rounds of nationally representative household surveys (2004/2005 and 2010/2011) and geo-referenced foreign aid data. We examine the determinants of Malawi's traditional authorities receiving aid according to health, environmental risk, socioeconomic and political factors. We use two approaches to estimate the impact of aid on reducing malaria prevalence and increasing healthcare quality: difference-in-difference models, which include traditional authority and month-of interview fixed effects and …