Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India

This research was made possible through a partnership with the Government of Rajasthan, which we thank for its collaboration. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the JPAL Governance Initiative, the Weiss Fund, the JPAL South Asia CaTCH initiative, and Stanford University. The data collection protocols were approved by the Stanford and Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) IRBs. We thank Putul Gupta, Ambika Chopra, Mantasha Hussain, Niyati Malhotra, and Mustufa Patel for outstanding project management, Camille Falezan for superb research assistance, and JPAL South Asia/IFMR for hosting the project. We are grateful to the Stanford Gender Coffee group and to seminar audiences at Stanford CHP/PCOR, Baylor University, the University of Minnesota, New York University, the Columbia Population Research Center, and PACDEV for useful comments. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• June 23, 2021