Sarkar, Pinak and Tigga, Nutan Shashi
(2025)
Efficiency and Productivity of Public Health Expenditures in Reducing Child Mortality in Emerging Market Economies.
In:
Advances in the Theory and Practice of Data Envelopment Analysis: Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA2024).
Springer, pp. 350-365.
ISBN 9783031981777
Abstract
In this study, we measure the efficiency and productivity of public health expenditures in improving child mortality outcomes in ten major emerging economies of the world. We use bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the bootstrap Malmquist productivity index (MPI) to measure the progress of efficiency and productivity from 2010–2020. Furthermore, we test the statistical significance of the progress in efficiency and productivity using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. For robustness of the efficiency and productivity estimates, we report the confidence intervals and test the statistical significance of the scores across countries. The average bias-corrected overall technical efficiency score of 0.3381 suggests that if inefficiency could be eliminated, child survival could be improved by 66% in these countries. The MPI results suggest that over the study period, on average, productivity improved for all these nations except for Saudi Arabia and South Korea. At the policy level, the study suggested that an increase in health expenditure is not sufficient to improve health outcomes unless efficiency and productivity are achieved.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA) | bootstrap Malmquist productivity index (MPI) | emerging economies | Health expenditure | neonatal mortality rate | under-five mortality rate |
Subjects: | Social Sciences and humanities > Economics, Econometrics and Finance > Economics Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Health (Social sciences) |
JGU School/Centre: | Jindal School of Banking and Finance |
Depositing User: | Mr. Arjun Dinesh |
Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2025 20:13 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2025 20:13 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98177-7 |
URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/10209 |
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