The demand for health insurance in a poor economy: evidence from Burkina Faso

We investigate the properties of health insurance demand in Burkina Faso, where we offered poor households a voluntary health insurance product at half the usual price. The targeting procedure we implemented delivers a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, which identifies the price elasticity of d...

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Main Authors: Schleicher, Michael (Author) , Klonner, Stefan (Author) , Sauerborn, Rainer (Author) , Sié, Ali (Author) , Souares-Coutant, Aurélia (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics May 2018
Series:Discussion paper series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics no. 648
In: Discussion paper series (no. 648)

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Author Notes:Michael Schleicher, Stefan Klonner, Rainer Sauerborn, Alie Sié, and Aurélia Souares
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