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Crowding Out of Solidarity? – Public Health Insurance versus Informal Transfer Networks in Ghana
Klohn, Florian - 2013
This paper delivers empirical evidence on how informal transfers are affected by a formal and country-wide health insurance scheme. Using the fifth wave of the Ghanaian Living Standard Household Survey, we investigate the extent to which the exogenous implementation of the National Health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077805
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Crowding Out of Solidarity? – Public Health Insurance versus Informal Transfer Networks in Ghana
Klohn, Florian - 2013
This paper delivers empirical evidence on how informal transfers are affected by a formal and country-wide health insurance scheme. Using the fifth wave of the Ghanaian Living Standard Household Survey, we investigate the extent to which the exogenous implementation of the National Health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078097
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009779147
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Ghana's national health insurance scheme in the context of the health MDGs : an empirical evaluation using propensity score matching
Mensah, Joseph; Oppong, Joseph R.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009
In 2003 the Government of Ghana established a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve health care access for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924459
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Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme in the Context of the Health MDGs – An Empirical Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching
Mensah, Joseph; Oppong, Joseph R.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009
In 2003 the Government of Ghana established a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve health care access for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269971
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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 : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011885539
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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion save lives?
Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064365
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359308
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The value of health insurance during a crisis : effects of Medicaid implementation on pandemic influenza mortality
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R.; Wang, Xiao - 2020
This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two influenza pandemics - the 1957-58 "Asian Flu" pandemic and the 1968-69 "Hong Kong Flu" - that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210395
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The effect of health insurance on child nutritional outcomes : evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Peru
Bernal, Noelia; Costa-Font, Joan; Ritter, Patricia - 2022
Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor...
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