Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109464 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 349
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
Studies of the incidence of benefits from public services have rightly stressed the difference between average and marginal benefits. Cross sectional methods of analysis for Lao PDR indicate that for public education and health services, total benefits are highest for the best-off quintile groups. Nevertheless, these groups' shares of marginal benefits are generally considerably lower and the marginal benefit shares of poorer quintile groups are correspondingly higher. For primary and secondary education and for primary health centers, expanding the overall level of provision delivers a pattern of marginal benefits that is significantly more pro-poor than average shares indicate. Although panel estimates show a pattern of marginal benefits that is somewhat less pro-poor than cross-sectional results suggest, they do not change the finding that the pattern of marginal benefits is more pro-poor than the overall pattern of average benefits.
Subjects: 
benefit incidence analysis
average benefit
marginal benefit
health services
education services
Lao PDR
JEL: 
D12
E21
H31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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