Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment

The intervention evaluated in this study is the result of a collaboration between the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health, Nigerian National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (formerly known as the Saving One Million Lives initiative), and the World Bank. We gratefully acknowledge the invaluable support of Marcus Holmlund, Arianna Legovini, Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, Kelechi Ohiri, Ado J.G Muhammad, Muhammad Ali Pate, and Hong Wang. We are also grateful to Oyebanji Filani, Giacomo de Giorgi, Benjamin Loevinsohn, Oluwole Odutolu, Chinny Ogunro, and participants in various conferences and seminars for helpful comments. We thank Md. Abul Kalam Azad and Ayodele Fashogbon for field coordination and Qiao Wang, Victoria Sung, and Amina Mendez Acosta for research assistance. The research protocol was reviewed and approved by Nigeria’s National Health Research Ethics Committee and the Homewood Institutional Review Board of Johns Hopkins University. This study was made possible through generous funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• August 24, 2017