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When insurers retreat: The governance of wildfire disasters and how FAIR plans allocate climate risk

open access: yesRisk Management and Insurance Review, EarlyView.
Abstract As wildfire risk accelerates private insurer retreat, state‐governed FAIR Plans increasingly serve as the primary coverage available in hazard‐prone areas. This paper analyzes these residual markets as instruments of disaster governance, arguing that their design reflects distributive political choices regarding risk allocation.
Katarzyna Klasa
wiley   +1 more source

National Health Insurance Reform in Indonesia: Health Care Usage and Expenditure Patterns When Expanding Population Coverage

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2014, Indonesia took a large step toward Universal Health Coverage and protection from the economic risk of illness—previous health insurance schemes were joined aiming to cover the entire population. This reform made it the largest single‐payer public health insurance scheme worldwide, which covered approximately 77% of Indonesian ...
Lisa Rogge
wiley   +1 more source

Long-term complication rates and healthcare utilization after traumatic spinal cord injury are more strongly associated with insurance status than injury mechanism. [PDF]

open access: yesN Am Spine Soc J
Elnaggar A   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Disasters, Dictators, and Donors: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Activity (Mis)Reporting

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments manipulate economic data to secure more foreign disaster aid. By using nighttime lighting as a reliable measure of economic activity, we make two key findings: (1) foreign disaster aid is positively linked to a country's understatement of its gross domestic product, indicating a deliberate strategy to ...
M. Martin Boyer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Access to Safety Net Programs in the U.S. During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Barriers and Lessons From a Scoping Review

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic triggered historic expansions of the U.S. social safety net to mitigate unprecedented economic hardship. However, increased government spending and program expansions on paper do not automatically translate into equitable access in practice.
Soohyun Yoon, Jeehae Kang
wiley   +1 more source

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Policy and Political Regime Change in Central America

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does democracy deliver more inclusive and transparent social policy in low‐capacity states? And how does democratic backsliding reshape social policy? Drawing on a comparative analysis of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, we examine how regime change and political ideology are associated with patterns of social policy access and ...
Juliana Martínez Franzoni   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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