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Healthcare utilization and outcomes for insured dependent children: evidence from Indonesia

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  • Kalyan Kolukuluri

    (Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam)

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In this study, I examine the role of health insurance cover in improving access to healthcare services and consequently its role in improving health outcomes for dependent children. I utilize differences in temporal variation of insurance cover for dependent children and their cousins, within the same Indonesian household to estimate the effect. By comparing dependent children of different biological parents, living in the same household, this study avoids potential confounders for healthcare demand, such as health endowment due to nutrition and hygiene. I find that dependent children of government employees have increased access to health insurance. In terms of healthcare use, I find no impact of insurance in providing access to preventive care as an outpatient. Instead, insurance status positively impacted first time and repeat visits to private facilities for curative care only. Insured children were 4.4 per cent more likely, than uninsured cousins, to access first-time curative care and make 63 per cent more repeat visits as an outpatient. In contrast, for inpatient services, insured children sought care at public facilities. Insurance did not have a positive impact on health outcomes for dependents. The results are robust to an instrumental variable estimation, alongside household fixed effects, which addresses concerns on potential endogeneity of insurance cover.

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  • Kalyan Kolukuluri, 2022. "Healthcare utilization and outcomes for insured dependent children: evidence from Indonesia," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 63(2), pages 945-977, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:empeco:v:63:y:2022:i:2:d:10.1007_s00181-021-02146-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s00181-021-02146-9
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    Keywords

    Healthcare access; Child health; Dependent insurance; Employer-based insurance;
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    JEL classification:

    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

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