National health insurance and the choice of delivery facility among expectant mothers in Ghana
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Keywords
National health insurance; Place of delivery; Multinomial endogenous treatment effect model; Conditional mixed process; Ghana;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- B54 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Feminist Economics
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