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Quality healthcare and health insurance retention: Evidence from a randomized experiment in the Kolkata Slums

Year: 2015

Type: preprint

Abstract: Health care in developing countries is often unreliable and of poor quality, reducing incentives to use quality health services. Using data from a field experiment in India, I show that providing initial quality care improves the demand for quality health care by raising intended health insurance renewal and subsequent use of quality services. Randomly offering insurance policyholders a free consultation with a qualified doctor has a twofold effect: receiving this additional benefit raises willingness to pay to renew health insurance by 56 percent, exposed individuals are 11 percentage points more likely to consult a qualified practitioner when ill after the consultation.

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Author: Clara Delavallade

Institution: CGIAR

Language: English

Topic: Healthcare Systems and Reforms

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: International Fine Particle Research Institute, University of Cape Town, International Labour Organization

OpenAlex ID: W3123986330

Cites: 47

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10