Data and Code for: Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India

This package contains the survey data and documentation for “Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India,” by Pascaline Dupas and Radhika Jain. It contains data collected in Rajasthan, India between the Summer of 2017 and the Fall of 2020, as well as the survey instruments used to collect it. The abstract of the paper is as follows:<br><br>We document large gender disparities within a government program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care. We show that care is not free in practice and higher costs are associated with larger disparities. Lowering care costs increases female utilization but does not reduce gender disparities because marginal beneficiaries are as likely to be male as inframarginals. Long-term exposure to local female leaders reduces disparities by addressing factors lowering female care. In the presence of gender bias, subsidizing social services may fail to address gender inequalities without actions that specifically target females.