This paper exploits the transitions between tax-financed health care and social health insurance in the OECD countries over the period 1960-2006 to assess the effects of adopting social health insurance over tax finance on per capita health spending, amenable mortality, and labor market outcomes. The paper uses regression-based generalizations of difference-in-differences and instrumental variables to address the possible endogeneity of a country's...
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2009/01/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS4821
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2009/01/21
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Disclosed
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Social health insurance vs. tax-financed health systems - evidence from the OECD
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loss of degrees of freedom