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Impacts of universal health coverage : a micro-founded macroeconomic perspective

Huang, Xianguo; Yoshino, Naoyuki - 2015

This paper studies the impact of tax-financed universal health coverage schemes on macroeconomic aspects of labor supply, asset holding, inequality, and welfare, while taking into account features common to developing economies, such as informal employment and tax avoidance, by constructing a...

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Does medicaid coverage for pregnant women affect prenatal health behaviors?

Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George - 2016

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group...

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Socialized healthcare and women's fertility decisions

Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pinar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, … - 2019

This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), introduced in 2005, provided a wide-range of primary healthcare services, free of charge, and achieved universal access by matching each...

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Socialized healthcare and women's fertility decisions

Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pinar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, … - 2019

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Mental health policy in India : seven sets of questions and some answers

Mirza, Arshad; Singh, Nirvikar - 2017

This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide at least partial answers to these questions, based on a meta-analysis of existing research. Given the complexity of the subject, this paper is meant to serve more as a framing...

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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)

the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … whether he was perhaps overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients … found to partially offset the adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …

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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014

stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical … overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients consult more often and … adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …

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