Ali, Shehzad orcid.org/0000-0002-8042-3630, Cookson, Richard Andrew orcid.org/0000-0003-0052-996X and Dusheiko, Mark Alan (2017) Addressing care-seeking as well as insurance-seeking selection biases in estimating the impact of health insurance on out-of-pocket expenditure. Social science and medicine. pp. 127-140. ISSN 1873-5347
Abstract
Health Insurance (HI) programmes in low-income countries aim to reduce the burden of individual out-of-pocket (OOP) health care expenditure. However, if the decisions to purchase insurance and to seek care when ill are correlated with the expected healthcare expenditure, the use of naïve models may produce biased estimates of the impact of insurance membership on OOP expenditure. Whilst many studies in the literature have accounted for the endogeneity of the insurance decision, the potential selection bias due to the care-seeking decision has not been taken into account. We extend the Heckman selection model to account simultaneously for both care-seeking and insurance-seeking selection biases in the healthcare expenditure regression model. The proposed model is illustrated in the context of a Vietnamese HI programme using data from a household survey of 1192 individuals conducted in 1999. Results were compared with those of alternative econometric models making no or partial allowance for selection bias. In this illustrative example, the impact of insurance membership on reducing OOP expenditures was underestimated by 21 percentage points when selection biases were not taken into account. We believe this is an important methodological contribution that will be relevant to future empirical work.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Health Sciences (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Centre for Health Economics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Aug 2017 09:15 |
Last Modified: | 22 Dec 2024 00:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.005 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.005 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119769 |
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