Findings on Economics Detailed by Investigators at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance In Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence From Indonesia’s National Health Insurance): Economics

2021 SEP 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Economics is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Cambridge, Massachusetts, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “To investigate barriers to universal health insurance in developing countries, we designed a randomized experiment involving about 6,000 households in Indonesia who are subject to a government health insurance program with a weakly enforced mandate.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Time-limited subsidies increased enrollment and attracted lower-cost enrollees, in part by reducing the strategic timing of enrollment to correspond with health needs. Registration assistance also increased enrollment, but increased attempted enrollment much more, as over one-half of households who attempted to enroll did not successfully do so.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “These findings underscore how weak administrative capacity can create important challenges in developing countries for achieving widespread coverage.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance In Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence From Indonesia’s National Health Insurance. American Economic Review, 2021;111(9):3035-3063. American Economic Review can be contacted at: Amer Economic Assoc, 2014 Broadway, Ste 305, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States. Additional authors for this research include Amy Finkelstein, Benjamin A. Olken, Rema Hanna, Arianna Ornaghi and Sudarno Sumarto.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20200523. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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