We investigate the properties of health insurance demand in Burkina Faso, where we offered poor households a voluntary health insurance product at half the usual price. The targeting procedure we implemented delivers a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, which identifies the price elasticity...

We investigate the properties of health insurance demand in Burkina Faso, where we offered poor households a voluntary health insurance product at half the usual price. The targeting procedure we implemented delivers a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, which identifies the price elasticity...

While antipoverty programs become increasingly popular in low-income countries, they often fail to adequately cover the poor. This dissertation considers a voluntary micro-health insurance scheme in Burkina Faso, which has applied community-based targeting to offer poor households a premium...