The effects of subsidised micro health insurance on insurance demand and welfare outcomes in rural Burkina Faso
Lisa Oberländer, Michael Schleicher, Germain Savadogo, Aurélia Souares, Rainer Sauerborn and Stefan Klonner
Savings and Development 2015, No. Special Issue - UMM Master Awards 2014, pp. 77-139
This paper evaluates the impact of a 50 per cent subsidy on micro health insurance in Burkina Faso. Applying a sharp regression discontinuity design, we found, first, that the subsidy doubled insurance enrollment, implying that poor households’ [...]