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In order to improve financial access to complementary health insurance (CHI) in France, a CHI voucher program, called Aide Complémentaire Santé (ACS) was introduced in 2005. Four years later, the program covered only 18% of the eligible population. Two main hypotheses are put forward to...
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Le dispositif de l’Aide complémentaire santé (ACS) a été mis en place au 1er janvier 2005 afin d’inciter les ménages dont le niveau de vie se situe juste au dessus du plafond CMU-C à acquérir une couverture complémentaire santé (CS). Même si le nombre de bénéficiaires a lentement...
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This paper is based on a randomised social experiment conducted in order to understand the low take-up rate of a Complementary health-insurance voucher program for the poorest in France (the Aide Complémentaire Santé: ACS). We explore two of the main hypotheses put forward to explain low...
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This article examines the quality of ex ante assessments of the effects of conditional cash-transfer programs on child time allocation in developing countries. We use data from a social experiment conducted to evaluate the Mexican program Progresa. We compare the results of (1) ex ante...
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Using a representative longitudinal survey of the immigrant population in Canada (the "Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada"), this article assesses the causal influence of social capital (as measured by social participation) on immigrant health status and health care use. Furthermore, it...
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L’Aide à l’acquisition d’une complémentaire santé (ACS) est un dispositif, sous la forme d’une aide financière, mis en place en 2005 pour favoriser l’accès aux soins des personnes ayant un revenu juste au-dessus du plafond de l’éligibilité à la Couverture maladie universelle...
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Le dispositif des affections de longue durée (ALD) vise à réduire la charge financière des assurés souffrant d’une maladie longue et coûteuse. Introduit dès 1945 au titre de quatre maladies (cancer, tuberculose, poliomyélite, maladie mentale), il concerne aujourd’hui 32 groupes de...
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This article analyses the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain (MBD) on child mortality using panel and cross-country quintile-level data on respectively 84 and 46 developing countries. Our results show that remittances reduce child mortality while MBD increases it....
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