There is a gap between healthcare service use and the demand for voluntary health insurance. People that have a high income are more likely to purchase voluntary health insurance, while people in worse health and afflicted by chronic illness may have greater difficulty purchasing voluntary...

This paper applies Johansen¡¯s cointegration and error-correction model to examine the relationships among a set of economic reform policies, the contribution of external factors, and Thailand¡¯s economic growth. The Johansen¡¯s cointegration results reveal that fiscal reform, openness,...

For this paper, three waves of the Thai Socio-Economic Panel Survey data which cover the years 2005-2007, are used for the first time to examine risk sharing through many specifications. The findings show that the null hypothesis of full insurance against income shock is rejected for the whole...