Does National Health Insurance Improve Children's Health ?National and Regional Evidence from Ghana
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Keywords
health insurance; health; health care utilization; children; Ghana; propensity score matching;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2017-02-19 (Development)
- NEP-HEA-2017-02-19 (Health Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2017-02-19 (Insurance Economics)
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