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Prospects for Reducing Uninsured Rates Among Children: How Much Can Premium Assistance Programs Help? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Examines the efficacy of premium assistance under Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs in extending coverage for children through a parent's employer-sponsored insurance.
Allison Cook   +2 more
core  

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information Frictions and Adverse Selection: Policy Interventions in Health Insurance Markets

open access: yesReview of Economics and Statistics, 2015
Despite evidence that many consumers in health insurance markets are subject to information frictions, approaches used to evaluate these markets typically assume informed, active consumers.
B. Handel   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

PARTICULARITIES OF LIFE INSURANCE PURCHASING PROCESS [PDF]

open access: yes
The decision to buy a life insurance policy is in most of the cases a complex decision. The consumer faces many problems before the purchase and during the effective process and after the purchase.life-insurance, insurance policy, situational factors ...
Ilie-Mircea BARBU, Nicoleta GRIDEANU
core  

The Purchase of Insurance Across State Lines in the Individual Insurance Market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Proposals to allow the purchase of insurance across state lines (PASL) have gained some support in recent years. Health insurers have traditionally been allowed to sell a policy only within the state that approved and regulates that particular policy ...
Kanwit, Stephanie W
core   +1 more source

Genetics and insurance in the United Kingdom 1995-2010: the rise and fall of scientific discrimination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Around the millennium there was extensive debate in the United Kingdom of the possible use of predictive genetic tests by insurance companies. Many insurance experts, geneticists and public policymakers appeared to believe that genetic test results would
Thomas, R. Guy
core   +1 more source

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards universal coverage: a policy analysis of the development of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Nigeria.

open access: yesHealth Policy and Planning, 2015
This article examines why and how a national health insurance (NHI) proposal targeting universal health coverage (UHC) in Nigeria developed over time. The study involved document reviews, in-depth interviews, a further review of preliminary analysis by ...
C. Onoka, K. Hanson, J. Hanefeld
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A choice experiment method to assess vegetables producers’ preferences for crop insurance [PDF]

open access: yes
Agricultural producers face many risks in their economic activity due to weather conditions, plant or animal diseases, price volatility, policy changes and so on.
Gil, Jose Maria   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source

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