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Impact Evaluation of Health Insurance for Children: Evidence from a Developing Country

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  • Nguyen Viet Cuong

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Although there are numerous studies on impact evaluation of overall health insurance, little is known on the impact of health insurance on health care utilization and out-of-pocket health care spending of children, especially in developing countries. This paper measures the impact of child health insurance on health care utilization and spending of children from 6 to 14 years old in Vietnam using two recent nationally representative surveys. Unlike previous empirical studies which found a positive effect of health insurance on health care utilization in Vietnam, we did not find a statistically significant effect of school health insurance as well as free health insurance for children on outpatient health care contacts. However, the school health insurance and free health insurance help the insured children decrease out-of-pocket spending per outpatient contact by around 14 and 26 percent, respectively.

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Paper provided by Department of Research, Ipag Business School in its series Working Papers with number 2014-180.

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Length: 15 pages
Date of creation: 25 Feb 2014
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Handle: RePEc:ipg:wpaper:2014-180
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Keywords: Child health insurance; impact evaluation; health care utilization; out-of-pocket spending; Vietnam.;

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  • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
  • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
  • H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate

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Cited by:

  1. Frederic Teulon, 2014. "Albert Hirschman (1915-2012) : l’étude des aspects non économiques de l’économie," Working Papers 2014-478, Department of Research, Ipag Business School.
  2. Farid Mkaouar & Jean-Luc Prigent, 2014. "Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance Effectiveness with Transaction Costs," Working Papers 2014-509, Department of Research, Ipag Business School.
  3. Sandrine Kablan & Josef Loening, 2014. "Is Chad Affected by Dutch or Nigerian Disease?," Working Papers 2014-492, Department of Research, Ipag Business School.
  4. Nguyen Viet Cuong & Vu Hoang Linh, 2014. "Should Parents Work Away from or Close to Home? The Effect of Temporary Parental Absence on Child Poverty and Children’s Time Use in Vietnam," Working Papers 2014-453, Department of Research, Ipag Business School.

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