This paper measures the causal effects of parent enrollment into voluntary health insurance on healthcare utilization among insured and uninsured children in Nicaragua. The study utilizes a randomized trial and age-eligibility cut-off in which insurance subsidies were randomly allocated to...

This paper measures the causal effects of parent enrollment into voluntary health insurance on healthcare utilization among insured and uninsured children in Nicaragua. The study utilizes a randomized trial and age-eligibility cut-off in which insurance subsidies were randomly allocated to...

In developing countries, public sector health facilities frequently run out of essential medicines (“stockouts”). I test whether anti-malarial drug stockouts affect prices, quality, and overall access to anti-malarial drugs in private sector outlets in Uganda. I combine data from four...