Complementarities in the provision of public services: Evidence from Zambia

• The data set maps the rollout of new health facilities across space and time from 1990 to 2017, which saw a dramatic rise in the number of facilities, rising from 1,022 to 3,131. [...] Ideas for growth www.theigc.org Overview of the research This study seeks to understand the relationship between the availability of health facilities and health outcomes in Zambia. [...] The work offers a new contribution to a large body of literature on the relationship between health infrastructure and health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. [...] For example, the impact of a health facility opening may be stronger for households in the lower segments of the income distribution. [...] Policy motivation for the research This study naturally lends itself to the public health objective of reducing child mortality in Zambia, as well as efforts to integrate more of the population into the health system and provide medical care.