Health insurance, a friend in need? Impacts of formal insurance and crowding out of informal insurance
Health insurance can improve health-seeking behaviors and protect consumption from health shocks but may also crowd out informal insurance. This paper therefore examines whether impacts of health insurance depend on households’ access to informal insurance, as proxied for by mobile money usage. Base...
| Autores principales: | , , , |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Elsevier
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147115 |
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