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The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance

  • To investigate barriers to universal health insurance in developing countries, we designed a randomized experiment involving about 6,000 households in Indonesia who are subject to a government health insurance program with a weakly enforced mandate. Time-limited subsidies increased enrollment and attracted lower-cost enrollees, in part by reducing the strategic timing of enrollment to correspond with health needs. Registration assistance also increased enrollment, but increased attempted enrollment much more, as over one-half of households who attempted to enroll did not successfully do so. These findings underscore how weak administrative capacity can create important challenges in developing countries for achieving widespread coverage.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Abhijiit Banerjee, Amy Finkelstein, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Arianna Ornaghi, Sudarno Sumarto
Parent Title (English):American Economic Review
Publication year:2021
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:3035
Last Page:3063
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20200523
Release Date:2021/09/10
Volume:111
Issue:9
Notes:
This is the final version of an article published in American Economic Review, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20200523
AY 21/22:AY 21/22
Licence of document (German):Metadaten (öffentlich), post-print
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