Heterogeneous effect of health insurance on financial risk: Evidence from two successive surveys in Ghana
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health insurance; financial risk protection; out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure; catastrophic healthcare expenditure; quantile regression; Ghana;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2020-11-30 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2020-11-30 (Development)
- NEP-HEA-2020-11-30 (Health Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2020-11-30 (Insurance Economics)
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