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Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines

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  • Abrigo, Michael R.M., Halliday, Timothy J., Molina, Teresa

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This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences methods, the study finds that the expansion increases insurance coverage by approximately 16-percentage points. Compliers induced by the policy to obtain insurance are disproportionately female and largely from the middle of the socioeconomic distribution. Instrumental variables estimates indicate that out-of-pocket medical expenditures more than double among the compliers. The study also argues that this is most likely driven by an outward shift in the medical demand curve.

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  • Abrigo, Michael R.M., Halliday, Timothy J., Molina, Teresa, 2019. "Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines," Discussion Papers DP 2019-37, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:phd:dpaper:dp_2019-37
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.62986/dp2019.37
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    JEL classification:

    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality

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