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Patrick Agte
Patrick Agte is a development economist, and will start as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics in July 2025. He was a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Economic Growth Center and received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2023.
His research uses tools from applied microeconomics and empirical industrial organisation to study healthcare and education markets in India and Latin America.
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India’s primary healthcare reform: Improved service delivery, reduced mortality
On average, a 60-year-old in India can expect to live for about 19 years, four years less than their counterparts in high-income countries – with the gap being partly driven by poor access to quality healthcare services. Based on data from Rajasthan, this article shows that adding a mid-level healthcare worker to public healthcare facilities in rural areas – a reform undertaken at scale across the country – improves service provision, increases patient visits, and decreases all-age mortality rates.
