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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
? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance …
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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 <I>Journal of Health Economics</I> (2013). Volume 32, issue 6, pages 1180-93.<P> 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...</p></i>
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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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Rising Inequalities in Income and Health in China: Who is left behind?
Baeten, Steef; Ourti, Tom Van; Doorslaer, Eddy Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
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 (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes in level and … disparities in China relate to rising income inequality and in particular to the adverse health and income experience of older (wo …
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan
Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Baljeu, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … compared to other OECD countries. In the past, small firms in Japan benefited from the protective environment of the keiretsu …
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Economic Growth and the Volatility of Foreign Aid
Chervin, Michal; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
Foreign aid’s effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy.We examine the impact of the volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 countries over the period 1966-2001. We find that...
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A Meta-Analysis of Beta-Convergence: The Legendary Two-Percent
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of...
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