Estimating Willingness-to-Pay for health insurance among rural poor in India by reference to Engel's law

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-73

  Binnendijk, Erika ^a   Dror, David M ^a,b   Gerelle, Eric ^c   Koren, Ruth ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Micro Insurance Academy   (India)

^c Sackler Faculty of Medicine ^*

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Community based health insurance; Engel's law; India; Low income populations; Micro health insurance; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ELASTICITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; RURAL SOCIETY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FOOD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; LAW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FINANCING, PERSONAL; FOOD; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIA; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION;

INDIA;

EID: 84870953584     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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