Helmsmüller, Simona; Landmann, Andreas - In: The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 47 (2021) 1, pp. 238-275
We analyze short-term effects of free hospitalization insurance for the poorest quintile of the population in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. First, we exploit that eligibility is based on an exogenous poverty score threshold and apply a regression discontinuity design. Second, we...