The Effects of Health Insurance within Families : Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua

This paper measures the causal effects of parent enrollment into voluntary health insurance on healthcare utilization among insured and uninsured children in Nicaragua. The study utilizes a randomized trial and age-eligibility cutoff in which insurance subsidies were randomly allocated to parents th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fitzpatrick, Anne, Thornton, Rebecca
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35431