10.17889/E113779
Pop-Eleches, Cristian
Thirumurthy, Harsha
Habyarimana, James
Goldstein, Markus
Graff Zivin, Joshua
Replication data for: The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes: The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2013
10.1257/app.5.2.58
10.1257/app.5.2.58
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We show that pregnant women whose first clinic visit coincides with
the nurse's attendance are 58 percentage points more likely to test for
HIV and 46 percent more likely to deliver in a hospital. Furthermore,
women with high pretest expectations of being HIV positive, whose
visit coincides with nurse attendance, are 25 and 7.4 percentage
points more likely to deliver in a hospital and receive PMTCT medication, and 9 percentage points less likely to breast-feed than women whose visit coincides with nurse absence. The shortcomings that prevent pregnant women from testing on a subsequent visit are common in sub-Saharan Africa. (JEL I12, J16, O15)