Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines

Michael R.M. Abrigo
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Timothy J. Halliday, Teresa Molina and Michael R.M. Abrigo

No DP 2019-37, Discussion Papers from Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Abstract: This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences methods, the study finds that the expansion increases insurance coverage by approximately 16-percentage points. Compliers induced by the policy to obtain insurance are disproportionately female and largely from the middle of the socioeconomic distribution. Instrumental variables estimates indicate that out-of-pocket medical expenditures more than double among the compliers. The study also argues that this is most likely driven by an outward shift in the medical demand curve.

Keywords: health insurance; insurance; Philippines; senior citizen; medical demand; compliers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Journal Article: Expanding health insurance for the elderly of the Philippines (2022)
Working Paper: Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines (2019)
Working Paper: Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines (2019)
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