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Insuring Consumption Against Illness

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Gertler, Paul, Gruber, Jonathan·2002·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/000282802760015603
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One of the most sizable and least predictable shocks to economic opportunities in developing countries is major illness. We investigate the extent to which families are able to insure consumption against major illness using a unique panel data set from Indonesia that combines excellent measures of health status with consumption information. We find that there are significant economic costs associated with major illness, and that there is very imperfect insurance of consumption over illness episodes. These estimates suggest that public disability insurance or subsidies for medical care may improve welfare by providing consumption insurance.

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Authors
Gertler, P., & Gruber, J.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2002-02-01
Volume
92
Issue
1
Pages
51-70
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/000282802760015603
OpenAlex
W2030115206
Cited by
835
References
27
FWCI
8.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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