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Minister of India, is only one of the forms that CBHI can take. While analysing the proposed scheme, we examine alternate forms … paper we also explore how insurance sector reforms alter health insurance prospects facing the poor in India, and what …. We conclude that in diverse settings of India all forms of CBHI have a role to play and therefore need to be encouraged …
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Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
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A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in …
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have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …
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One of the main features of health insurance is moral hazard, as defined by Pauly (1968); people face incentives for excess utilization of medical care since they do not pay the full marginal cost for provision. To mitigate the moral hazard problem, a coinsurance can be included in the insurance...
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We study the dependence of health insurance availability of near-elderly inpatients in the United States with respect to their ages. We show that the likelihood that near-elderly inpatients are uninsured continuously declines until the early ages of 60 but the trend is reversed for the last few...
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In the backdrop of the low level of health insurance coverage in India, this study examines the determinants of the …
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asymmetry and sensitivity of labor force participation decisions are found across gender, age, and education groups, and these …
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …
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