Health Insurance and Income Inequality,". Robert Kaestner,Darren Lubotsky. Journal of Econometrics . 2016Kaestner, Robert, and Darren Lubotsky. 2016. "Health Insurance and Income Inequal- ity." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(2): 53-78....
After controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, health insurance status, year trends, and state fixed effects, income inequality was found to have significant relationships with behavioral, physical, and mental health outcomes, including heavy drinking, obesity, exercise, diabetes, ...
the study utilized the community-based participatory approach that allowed us to understand better the residents' health needs, concerns, and priorities and the impact of income on their health. Results of the study were
Besides, female workers are more sensitive to the impact of diseases and medical insurance, which makes them more valuable in family health production [24]. The results present in Table 7 saying that rural workers have a higher health-income effect support the findings in previous literature that...
There have been debates over how many uninsured people can afford insurance but refuse to purchase it. Examining the difference in asset holdings between the privately insured and the uninsured, we found that the difference in purchasing power is not fully revealed by income comparisons. Median inco...
Paying Taxes and Using Health Care Services: The Distributional Consequences of Tax Financed Universal Health Insurance in a Canadian Province. Presented at the CSLS Conference on the State of Living Standards and the Quality of Life in Canada, Ottawa, ON. Organisation for Economic Co...
And nearly everyone agrees the government needs to intervene to address these disparities. Over half of all respondents regardless of income said it should be a governmental priority to address income inequality and make insurance accessible for everyone, although more low-income respondents (7...
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To address these challenges, the Ethiopian Health Insurance Service (EHIS) aimed to define an explicit health insurance benefit package (HIBP). The HIBP development used a multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) through a transparent and participatory approach. The key criteria for the MCDA were ...
The effects of public financing of health expenditures, insurance coverage and other factors on health outcomes are examined within health production models estimated using 1960-1992 data across 20 OECD countries. Mortality rates are found to depend on the mix of health care expenditures and the type...