This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … that never used the improved stove. This is a substantial effect with implications for greater health and well … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …

uses data from rural China that cover three generations, and are not subject to coresident sample selection. Evidence from …

In the mid-2000s, India began rolling out large-scale, publicly-financed health insurance schemes mostly targeting the … period, Maharashtra did not introduce any at-scale health initiative that was not also introduced in Andhra Pradesh. Andhra … Pradesh other health initiatives were considerably less ambitious and costly than Aarogyasri. The paper finds that Andhra …

mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program … at local health clinics for all children under five years old. There was not such a requirement under the unconditional … health care visits during the previous year, while unconditional cash transfers did not have such an impact. For the …

outcomes between men and women, and urban and rural residents using the Turkish Demographic and Health Surveys. This policy is …

Providing protection against the financial risk of high out-of-pocket health spending is one of the main goals of the … Philippines? health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys, health spending increased by 150 percent … (real) from 2000 to 2012, with the sharpest increases occurring in recent years. The main driver of health spending is …

This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of state subsidized or social health insurance schemes that have … utilization, protection from financial risk, and health status. However, a few insurance schemes afford significant protection … is needed to understand the reasons for low enrollment and to explain the limited impact of health insurance among the …

This paper explores the possibility that universal health coverage may inadvertently result in distorted labor market … growth, as well as reduced protection against non-health risks and the income risks associated with ill health. It explores …

Seguro Popular was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security …