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Rising Inequalities in Income and Health in China: Who is left behind?

Baeten, Steef; Ourti, Tom Van; Doorslaer, Eddy Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion led to a publication in the 'Journal of Health Economics', 2013, 32, 6, 1214–1229. During the last decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new decomposition on the China Health and Nutrition panel Survey...

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Effectiveness of Large Scale Water and Sanitation Interventions: the One Million Initiative in Mozambique

Elbers, Chris; Godfrey, Samuel; Gunning, Jan Willem; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

The One Million Initiative aims to give one million people in rural Mozambique access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation by constructing new water points and providing sanitation training. We use panel survey data for 1600 households to analyze the health impact of the Initiative....

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Financial Protection of Patients through Compensation of Providers: The Impact of Health Equity Funds in Cambodia

Flores, Gabriela; Ir, Por; Men, Chean R.; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Journal of Health Economics (2013). Volume 32, issue 6, pages 1180-93. Public providers have no financial incentive to respect their legal obligation to exempt the poor from user fees. Health Equity Funds (HEFs) aim to make exemptions effective by...

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When Health Care Insurance does not make a Difference – The Case of Health Care ‘Made in China’

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance does not affect health care demand in a significant manner....

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Universal Coverage on a Budget: Impacts on Health Care Utilization and Out-Of-Pocket Expenditures in Thailand

Limwattananon, Supon; Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...

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Audit Rates and Compliance: A Field Experiment in Long-term Care

Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der; Vriend, Sandra - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of...

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Can Risk Adjustment prevent Risk Selection in a Competitive Long-Term Care Insurance Market?

Bakx, Piet; Schut, Erik; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

When public long-term care (LTC) insurance is provided by insurers, they typically lack incentives for purchasing cost-effective LTC. Providing insurers with appropriate incentives for efficiency without jeopardizing access for high-risk individuals requires, among other things, an adequate...

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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?

Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … COPD, education still plays a role. …

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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …

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Temporal, Spatial, Economic and Crime Factors in Illicit Drug Usage across European Cities

Commandeur, Jacques J.F.; Vujic, Suncica; Koopman, Siem Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We analyze the illicit drug usage by inhabitants and visitors of European cities. Our statistical analyses are by means of linear mixed models. The data on illicit drug usage of cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines, methamphetamines, and cannabis are collected through wastewater samples from the inlet...

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