NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES BRIBERY IN HEALTH CARE IN PERU AND UGANDA Jennifer Hunt Working Paper 13034 http://www.nber.org/papers/w13034 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2007 I am grateful to Vincent Chandler for excellent research assistance, to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informacíon for the Peruvian data, and to Niels Ulrich, Paul Mpuga, Barbara Kasura Magezi Ndamira and K2 Consulting for the Ugandan data. I thank Lorena Alcázar, Leah Brooks, Dean Yang and seminar participants at McGill, UC Davis, UC Berkeley and the NBER Inter-American Seminar for comments. I am also affiliated with the CEPR, IZA and DIW-Berlin, and I acknowledge the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. © 2007 by Jennifer Hunt. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source.