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Follow the leader: community-based health insurance in West Africa

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  • Rute M. Caeiro
  • Alexander Coutts
  • Teresa Molina-Millan
  • Pedro C. Vicente

Abstract

In this study, we analyze the role of social networks in health insurance adoption in rural Guinea-Bissau. Using detailed social network data, and exploiting the mobilization of local female leaders to promote the insurance scheme, we find that, following the promoters’ intervention, households’ probability of take-up increased by 22 percentage points. Looking at effects along social networks, we find that households well connected to insurance promoters are more likely to adopt if promoters adopt as well. Lastly, our results show that distribution of insurance promotional material by the promoters has a positive effect in households’ adoption and payment of health insurance.

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  • Rute M. Caeiro & Alexander Coutts & Teresa Molina-Millan & Pedro C. Vicente, 2022. "Follow the leader: community-based health insurance in West Africa," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2206, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
    • Handle: RePEc:unl:novafr:wp2206
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    Keywords

    Health insurance; Social networks; Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

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