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Parental Morbidity, Child Work, and Health Insurance in Rwanda

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Measuring direct and indirect effects of extending health insurance coverage in developing countries is a key issue for health system development and for attaining universal health coverage. This paper investigates the role played by health insurance in the relationship between parental morbidity and child work decisions. We use a propensity score matching technique combined with hurdle models, using data from Rwanda. The results show that parental health shocks have a substantial influence on child work when households do not have health insurance. Depending on the gender of the sick parent, there is a substitution effect not only between the parent and the child on the labor market, but also between the time the child spends on different work activities. Altogether, results reveal that health insurance protects children against child work in the presence of parental health shocks.
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hal-01505774 , version 1 (11-04-2017)

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Maame Esi Woode, Marwân-Al-Qays Bousmah, Raouf Boucekkine. Parental Morbidity, Child Work, and Health Insurance in Rwanda. JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2017, 83 (1), pp.111-127. ⟨10.1017/dem.2016.28⟩. ⟨hal-01505774⟩
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