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The role of public health insurance in protecting against the costs of ill health : evidence from Mexico
Sáenz de Miera Juárez, Belén - 2017
consumption after severe health shocks, as well as the contribution of public health insurance in the form of social security and … are associated with large declines in non-medical consumption. Social security seems to provide protection against both … consumption against accidents. This suggests that income losses associated with disability shocks, for which the programme does …
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Can Risk Adjustment prevent Risk Selection in a Competitive Long-Term Care Insurance Market?
Bakx, Piet; Schut, Erik; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2013
When public long-term care (LTC) insurance is provided by insurers, they typically lack incentives for purchasing cost-effective LTC. Providing insurers with appropriate incentives for efficiency without jeopardizing access for high-risk individuals requires, among other things, an adequate...
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The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
Maclean, J. Catherine; Saloner, Brendan - 2017
We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient...
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Can risk adjustment prevent risk selection in a competitive long-term care insurance market?
Bakx, Piet; Schut, Erik; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2013
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The effect of public insurance expansions on substance use disorder treatment : evidence from the affordable care act
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Saloner, Brendan - 2017
We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient...
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Do Remittances Help Smooth Consumption During Health Shocks? Evidence From Jamaica
Beuermann, Diether W.; Ruprah, Inder S.; Sierra, Ricardo E. - 2014
We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …
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Critical illness insurance in life cycle portfolio problems
Schendel, Lorenz S. - 2014
I analyze a critical illness insurance in a consumption-investment model over the life cycle. I solve a model with …
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Health shocks and coping strategies: State health insurance scheme of Andhra Pradesh, India
Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2014
The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and if policy responses like state health insurance schemes are effective in reducing the economic...
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Health shocks and overindebtedness: A panel data analysis from rural Viet Nam
Chhay, Panharoth; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2022
Rural households in developing countries have limited capacity to cope with and manage shocks, thereby resulting in chronic poverty, indebtedness, and a decline in overall well-being. Therefore, this study analyzes the effects of health shocks on overindebtedness in rural Viet Nam using four...
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Labour supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples: evidence from the UKHLS
Macchioni Giaquinto, Annarita; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel - 2021
Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical evidence on the existence of a healthrelated 'added worker...
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