Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - 2021
We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households …. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the … fraction of households offered insurance varied across villages. The opportunity to purchase insurance led to 59.91% uptake and …