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Insuring against health shocks : health insurance and household choices
Liu, Kai - 2015
with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total …
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Social learning and health insurance enrollment : evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
Liu, Hong; Sun, Qi; Zhao, Zhong - 2013
Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and …, wealthier, relatively well-educated older male household heads with Han nationality tend to be opinion leaders. -- rural China …
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The effect of health insurance reform : evidence from China
He, Huajing; Nolen, Patrick - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health …
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Health inequality and health insurance coverage : the United States and China compared
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A.; Shi, Xuezhu - 2023
We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … that whether SAH inequality is greater in the US or in China depends on the concept of status and the inequality …
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The affordable care act and the growth of involuntary part-time employment
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2015
This study tests whether the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased involuntary part-time (IPT) employment. Using data from the Current Population Survey between 1994 and 2014, we find that IPT employment in 2014 was higher than predicted based on economic conditions and...
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Health insurance benefit mandates and the firm-size distribution
Bailey, James; Webber, Douglas A. - 2015
By 2010, the average US state had passed 37 health insurance benefit mandates (laws requiring health insurance plans to cover certain additional services). Previous work has shown that these mandates likely increase health insurance premiums, which in turn could make it more costly for firms to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317660
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Cost-sharing and use of health services in Italy : evidence from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost-sharing for health services consumption. Since the...
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Community-based health insurance and out-of-pocket healthcare spending in Africa : evidence from Rwanda
Woldemichael, Andinet; Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Shimeles, Abebe - 2016
In the absence of third party and prepayment systems such as health insurance and tax-based healthcare financing, households in many low-income countries are exposed to the financial risks of paying large medical bills from out-of-pocket. In recent years, community based health insurance schemes...
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Health insurance and child health : evidence from Mexico
Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2016
We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in Mexico. The Seguro Popular (SP) was rolled out in 2002-2010 across municipalities, providing exogenous variation in access to health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat...
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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment
Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most paid employees, but not for the self-employed, who...
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