expenditure and examine the impact of health insurance on probability of incurring catastrophic health expenditure. The study is … examine the impact of health insurance on catastrophic health care payments for six Indian states.[IGIDR WP -2008-016]. …It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to …

This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

Countries that have universal or near universal access to healthcare have health financing mechanisms which are single … either covered by social insurance or buy private insurance. In contrast those who suffer a hand-to-mouth existence, a large … for India to move towards financing mechanisms that can create equity. It brings together data on India’s health …

social security, consumption of edible items, consumption under PDS system, health, union awareness, time use, household …

This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved … corrections are necessary. Good health leads to higher wages for men, while there appears to be no significant effect for women … (GSOEP) we find the health variable to suffer from measurement error and a number of tests provide evidence that selection …

indicators; employment and access, in view. Some gender sensitive policy options are discussed at the end.[Paper IV] …

stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …

equitable and employment-generating social policies in National Development Strategies. This Policy Note has been developed in …