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Philippines? health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys, health spending increased by 150 percent …
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This paper explores the possibility that universal health coverage may inadvertently result in distorted labor market choices, with workers preferring informal employment over formal employment, leading to negative effects on investment and growth, as well as reduced protection against...
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This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of state subsidized or social health insurance schemes that have been offered, mostly on a voluntary basis, to the informal sector in low- and middle-income countries. A substantial number of papers provide estimations of average treatment on...
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Health facility surveys come in various guises. One dimension in which they vary is their motivation. Some seek to understand better links between households and providers. Others seek to understand better provider behavior and performance. Still others seek to understand the interrelationships...
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to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in … household being above and below the poverty line. The paper provides an overview of the methods and issues arising in each case …
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account that program coverage depends not only on the individual's employment status, but also that of other household members … difference-in-difference estimation controlling for household fixed effects. The paper finds that Seguro Popular lowers formality … households, and with someone else in the household guaranteeing Social Security coverage. However, workers pay for part of these …
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-section data sets from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to estimate impacts on efficiency, quality, and equity. The …
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mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program …
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understood. This study investigates a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that resulted in quasi-random assignment of … temporary, partial-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced … effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …
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offered: those that absorb more than a pre-specified fraction of discretionary consumption; and those that leave a household …
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