Persistent Effects of Temporary Incentives: Evidence from a Nationwide Health Insurance Experiment

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Temporary incentives are offered in anticipation of persistent effects, but these are seldom estimated. We use a nationwide randomized experiment in the Philippines to estimate effects three years after the withdrawal of two incentives for health insurance. A premium subsidy had a persistent effect on enrollment that is more than four fifths of the immediate effect. Application assistance had a much larger immediate impact, but less than a fifth of this effect persisted. The subsidy persuaded those with higher initial willingness to pay to enroll and keep enrolling, while application assistance achieved a larger immediate effect by drawing in those who valued insurance less and were less likely to re-enroll.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2019-078/V

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health Insurance, Public and Private ; Field Experiments
• Thema: incentives ; persistence ; health insurance ; subsidy ; randomized experiment

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Baillon, Aurélien ; Capuno, Joseph ; O'Donnell, Owen ; Tan, Carlos ; van Wilgenburg, Kim
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Tinbergen Institute
• (wo): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/220027
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ