The Social Value of Health Insurance Results from Ghana |

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Country

Ghana

Policy Area

Policy

Authors

Garcia-Mandico, Silvia, et al.

Year

2019

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Form of exploitation

Child Labour

Affected group

Households

Location

National

Result on Child labour

The insurance scheme in Ghana reduced the likelihood that households experiencing a health shock pulled their children out of school in order to put them to work.

Other results

There has been a strong reduction in medical expenditures, preventing households from cutting non-food consumption and causing a decrease in the volume of received remittances as well as labour supply of healthy adult household members.

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