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the long run. We find suggestive evidence on decreased investment in disease prevention and selection that may help …
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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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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 curve and to test simple measures against adverse selection. The …
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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 curve and to test simple measures against adverse selection. The …
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Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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selection was not mitigated as anticipated. The analysis did not find strong evidence that suggests the positive risk selection …
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This article considers an economy where risk is insurable, but selection determines the pool of individuals who take it … selection (adverse versus favorable), but rather other characteristics. We then use repeated cross-sections of medical …
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This chapter will deal with the actual and efficient functioning of health insurance in settings where risk (expected value) of medical spending or insurance benefits varies across individuals at a given point in time or over time for a given individual. It will deal with equilibrium in...
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