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The value of health insurance: A household job search approach
Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Narita, Renata Del Tedesco - 2018
Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We answer this question using the introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP), in 2002. The SP targeted individuals not covered by Social Security and broke the link between...
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The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach
Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Narita, Renata - 2018
Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We answer this question using the introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP), in 2002. The SP targeted individuals not covered by Social Security and broke the link between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931671
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Economic Impact of Illness with Health Insurance but without Income Insurance
Neelsen, Sven; Limwattananon, Supon; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2015
We examine economic vulnerability to illness when, as for informal sector workers in Thailand, there is universal coverage for health care but earnings losses are uninsured. Even with comprehensive health care entitlement, severe illness that strikes an initially healthy worker is found to raise...
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The Effects of Access to Health Insurance for Informally Employed Individuals in Peru
Bernal, Noelia; Carpio, Miguel A.; Klein, Tobias J. - 2014
Many developing countries have recently increased health insurance coverage at a large scale. While it is commonly believed that this has positive effects, to date, it is not well understood through which channels health insurance coverage contributes to the well-being of individuals. More...
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Crowding out of Solidarity? – Public Health Insurance versus Informal Transfer Networks in Ghana
Klohn, Florian; Strupat, Christoph - 2013
2005 bis 2006 führten die Distriktregierungen in Ghana eine öffentliche Krankenversicherung ein, die allen … Einführung der formellen Krankenversicherung die Teilnahme an informellen Versicherungen beeinflusst. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen … Krankenversicherung insbesondere denen, die über ein schwach ausgeprägtes soziales Netzwerk verfügen und Unternehmern, welche oft einen …
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Can microinsurance help prevent child labor? An impact evaluation from Pakistan
Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - 2013
Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...
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Subjective Expectations of Medical Expenditures and Insurance in Rural Ethiopia
Yilma, Zelalem; O'Donnell, Owen; Mebratie, Anagaw; … - 2015
Little is known about perceptions of medical expenditure risks despite their presumed relevance to health insurance demand. This paper reports on a unique elicitation of subjective probabilities of medical expenditures from rural Ethiopians who are offered the opportunity to purchase health...
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Does access to health insurance reduce the risk of miscarriages? Evidence from Mexico's Seguro popular
Pfutze, Tobias - In: Latin American Economic Review 24 (2015) 1, pp. 1-10
This paper analyzes whether Mexico's de-facto non-contributory health insurance program Seguro Popular had an effect on the risk of miscarriage during pregnancy. Using data on pregnancies over the 2004-08 period from the 2009 round of the National Survey on Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), and...
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Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from a RCT in Pakistan
Fischer, Torben; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas - 2018
We present robust evidence on the presence of adverse selection in hospitalization insurance for low-income households. A large randomized control trial from Pakistan allows us to separate adverse selection from moral hazard, to estimate how selection changes at different points of the demand...
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Taking cover: Human capital accumulation in the presence of shocks and health insurance
Font-Gilabert, Paulino - 2020
Using the expansion of a large-scale health insurance program in Mexico and variation in local rainfall levels, I estimate whether the program-induced increase in healthcare coverage protected the educational attainment of primary school children in the event of adverse climatic shocks. Results...
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