This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data … availability of health facilities in one's own community, neither of which has been emphasized in the previous literature on this … topic. It is possible to analyze the determinants of health insurance enrollment in Ghana because its public health …

address this issue, the governments of LMICs have initiated health insurance programs that target these poor populations …. However, the health benefits these programs provide are often limited due to resource constraints in LMICs. In this paper, we … that rural residents substitute outpatient services in hospitals for that in township health centers. Lastly, results on …

mental health care do not receive any treatment, mostly due to the inability to pay for care or lack of health insurance … coverage. How does a sudden change in health insurance coverage status affect psychological well-being and mental health? We … explore this question using age-based health insurance coverage policies in the United States as natural experiments. We …

mental health care do not receive any treatment, mostly due to the inability to pay for care or lack of health insurance … coverage. How does a sudden change in health insurance coverage status affect psychological well-being and mental health? We … explore this question using age-based health insurance coverage policies in the United States as natural experiments. We …

health insurance through subsidies and penalty. We use administrative data from Australia to study how high-income earners …

We present a comprehensive evaluation of the health impacts of the introduction and expansion of a large non …-contributory health insurance program in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP). SP provided access to health services without co-pays to …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … important implications for the ongoing health insurance expansions. …

This paper investigates the relationship between health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young … Affordable Care Act required all employers to provide health insurance to employees' children until the age of 26 (before … September, 2010), many health insurance contracts covered dependents through age 19. Using a regression discontinuity design …

Deductibles are commonly used to tame increasing health care costs. Numerous studies find that higher deductibles … reduce health care utilization. In this paper we compare utilization in Switzerland between two health care plans with … anything health care expenditures are higher for male individuals with the higher deductible, while for females there are no …