Do Spouses Make Claims? Health Seeking and Microfinance In India

We study a micro-finance program that provides compulsory health insurance to its borrowers and their spouses. We find that the non-borrowing spouses are less likely to file insurance claims than those who are borrowing. Further, a man is more likely to use the health insurance acquired through his wife's loan than is a woman (through her husband's loan). These patterns suggest that women who do not borrow are disempowered relative to those that do

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Rai, Ashok
Other Persons:	Ravi, Shamika (contributor)
Publisher:	[2014]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Mikrofinanzierung \| Microfinance \| Indien \| India \| Gesundheit \| Health

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (19 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 31, 2009 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1424823 [DOI]
Classification:	D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; G22 - Insurance; Insurance Companies ; I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets ; J16 - Economics of Gender
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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