The Social Value of Health Insurance: Results from Ghana

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  • Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó
  • Arndt Reichert
  • Christoph Strupat

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  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Weltbank
  • German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer104314
Seitenumfang17
FachzeitschriftJournal of Public Economics
Jahrgang194
Frühes Online-Datum19 Dez. 2020
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Feb. 2021

Abstract

We use the roll-out of the national health insurance in Ghana to assess the cushioning effect of coverage on the financial consequences of health shocks and resulting changes in coping behaviors. We find a strong reduction in medical expenditures, preventing households from cutting non-food consumption and causing a decrease in the volume of received remittances as well as labor supply of healthy adult household members. Moreover, we present evidence that the insurance scheme reduced the likelihood that households experiencing a health shock pulled their children out of school in order to put them to work. Avoidance of such costly coping mechanisms is potentially an important part of the social value of formal health insurance.

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The Social Value of Health Insurance: Results from Ghana. / Garcia-Mandicó, Sílvia; Reichert, Arndt; Strupat, Christoph.
in: Journal of Public Economics, Jahrgang 194, 104314, 02.2021.

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Garcia-Mandicó S, Reichert A, Strupat C. The Social Value of Health Insurance: Results from Ghana. Journal of Public Economics. 2021 Feb;194:104314. Epub 2020 Dez 19. doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104314
Garcia-Mandicó, Sílvia ; Reichert, Arndt ; Strupat, Christoph. / The Social Value of Health Insurance : Results from Ghana. in: Journal of Public Economics. 2021 ; Jahrgang 194.
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