Adam Wagstaff

TL;DR: In 2003, after over 20 years of minimal health insurance coverage in rural areas, China launched a heavily subsidized voluntary health insurance program for rural residents as discussed by the authors, which significantly increased both outpatient and inpatient utilization (by 20-30 percent) but had no impact on utilization in the poorest decile.

TL;DR: The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health insurance program impacted favorably on height- for-age and weight-for-age of young school children, and on body mass index among adults, and that VHI causes a reduction in annual out-of-pocket expenditures on health and an increase in non-medical household consumption, including food consumption, but mostly nonfood consumption.

TL;DR: Estimates of the program's impact-obtained using single differences and propensity score matching on a trimmed sample-suggest that HCFP has substantially increased service utilization, especially in-patient care, and has reduced the risk of catastrophic spending.

TL;DR: A survey of Brenner's studies concludes that--contrary to what is often claimed--Brenner's analyses do not provide convincing evidence that the social costs of unemployment include premature deaths.

TL;DR: The incidence and depth of impoverishment are measured as the difference in the poverty head count and poverty gap with and without out-of-pocket spending included in household total consumption among 122 countries in the authors' sample, accounting for 90% of the world's population.