"This paper exploits the transitions between tax-financed health care and social health insurance in the OECD countries … over the period 1960-2006 to assess the effects of adopting social health insurance over tax finance on per capita health …-in-differences and instrumental variables to address the possible endogeneity of a country's health system. It finds that adopting social …

This paper exploits the transitions between tax-financed health care and social health insurance in the OECD countries … over the period 1960-2006 to assess the effects of adopting social health insurance over tax finance on per capita health …-in-differences and instrumental variables to address the possible endogeneity of a country's health system. It finds that adopting social …

Social health insurance (SHI) is enjoying something of a revival in parts of the developing world. Many countries that … financing in favor of general revenues, or are in the process of doing so. This paper examines how SHI fares in health care …

The last few years have seen a growing commitment worldwide to universal health coverage (UHC). Yet there is a lack of … everyone?irrespective of their ability-to-pay?gets the health services they need; and that nobody suffers undue financial … data?by about 5 points on average; however, the improvement has come from increases in receipt of key health interventions …

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 …

With the movement toward universal health coverage gaining momentum, the global health research community has made …. The current paper contributes to this limited knowledge by evaluating the impact of a shift by Vietnam's social health …

This paper exploits the staggered rollout of Thailand?s universal health coverage scheme to estimate its impacts on … on health (about four times larger) than the Village Fund scheme, which provided free credit to rural households through …