Table 4.
Estimated Impacts of Treatment on Insurance Usage
| Have insurance | Received insurance benefits | Used cashless facility | Received reimbursement | Expect to receive reimbursement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Panel A: For each major health event (self-reported) | |||||
| Treatment | 0.510*** (0.035) |
0.0030*** (0.0006) |
0.0016*** (0.0004) |
0.0018*** (0.0005) |
0.045*** (0.012) |
| Control group mean | 0.057 | 0.0003 | 0.0001 | 0.0002 | 0.012 |
| Number of events | 25,072 | 25,072 | 25,072 | 25,072 | 25,072 |
| Panel B: For each client (self-reported) | |||||
| Treatment | 0.683*** (0.0402) |
0.0106*** (0.0019) |
0.0055*** (0.0014) |
0.0062*** (0.0016) |
0.091*** (0.0231) |
| Control group mean | 0.0573 | 0.0003 | 0.0001 | 0.0002 | 0.0119 |
| Number of clients | 6941 | 6941 | 6941 | 6941 | 6941 |
| Panel C: For each client (administrative data) | |||||
| Treatment | 0.842*** (0.018) |
0.075*** (0.007) |
0.026*** (0.004) |
0.053*** (0.007) |
|
| Control group mean | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Number of clients | 6941 | 6941 | 6941 | 6941 | |
Notes
For each ‘major health event’ surveyed, panel A reports the estimated impact of treatment (imposing the insurance requirement) on clients’ self-reported insurance usage for that event: whether clients self-report the affected person having insurance at the time of the event (column (1)); whether clients self-report having received any insurance benefits from that event, through the affected person either using a cashless facility or receiving reimbursement (column (2)); whether clients self-report the affected person used a cashless facility (column (3)) or they received reimbursement (column (4)); or whether clients self-report expecting to receive reimbursement from the insurance policy (column (5)). Panel B aggregates the ‘major health events’ by client, indicating the impact of treatment on whether clients self-report any affected person in their household having: had insurance for any surveyed event (column (1)); received insurance benefits for any surveyed event (column (2)); used a cashless facility for any surveyed event (column (3)); received reimbursement for any surveyed event (column (4)); or expect to receive reimbursement for any surveyed event (column (5)). Panel C uses administrative claims data, merged to clients ever surveyed on a major health event, to report the impact of treatment on whether the client or persons covered under the client’s insurance policy: were ever enrolled in insurance (column (1)); ever received insurance benefits (column (2)); ever used a cashless facility (column (3)); or ever received reimbursement (column (4)). All regressions control for the randomization stratification groups (SKS branch and above/below median number of clients within branch), and robust standard errors clustered by village are reported in parentheses.
denote statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, 10% level, respectively.