The Great Equalizer: Health Care Access and Infant Mortality in Thailand

This paper analyzes Thailand's 2001 healthcare reform, "30 Baht." The program increased funding available to hospitals to care for the poor and reduced copays to 30 Baht (~$0.75). Our estimates suggest the supply-side funding of the program increased healthcare utilization, especially...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gruber, Jonathan, Hendren, Nathaniel, Townsend, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96019
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9877-3065
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1528-8102