Intergenerational Mobility of Earnings and Income Among Sons and Daughters in Vietnam

Dang, Thang

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2876205

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“…Although the economic reform of Vietnam (know as the name of Doi Moi) since 1986 has engendered numerous economic opportunities for its citizens (Dang 2015) that are remarkably essential to improve living standards in general and more equal access to health care services in particular, Vietnam has extremely demanded for appropriate health policies to enhance its citizens' health care utilization. In that context, in 2005 the government of Vietnam introduced the FCCU6 policy with a mission is to provide sufficient health care services for children under the age of 6 at public health facilities by giving free of charge health insurance.…”

Section: Universal Child Health Insurance Program In Vietnammentioning

confidence: 99%

The Multiple Effects of Child Health Insurance in Vietnam

Dang

2017

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This paper estimates multiple effects of tremendous expansion in health insurance coverage for children on medical services utilizations for both children and parents by focusing on Free Care for Children Under Six, a child health insurance program that provides free access to health care practices for children under 6 in Vietnam. Using a regression discontinuity design, the paper finds that child health insurance has considerable positive effects on children's health care uses whereas it reduces parental health care utilization for some outcomes. In particular, child health health insurance increases the probabilities of public inpatient visit and private outpatient visit by 22.3% and 33% respectively while it rises the frequencies of public inpatient visits and private outpatient visits by 0.32 times and 2.24 times respectively. In contrast, child health insurance reduces a mother's probabilities of public inpatient visit and public outpatient visit by 32.6% and 27% respectively, number of public inpatient visits by 0.41 times. Also, paternal impacts of child health insurance consists of a 23.2% reduction in the probability of private outpatient visit and a 1.01 time decrease in the frequency of private outpatient visits. The paper significantly provides a more insightful understanding of various impacts of a health policy on health care utilization from developing countries.

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Section: Universal Child Health Insurance Program In Vietnammentioning

confidence: 99%