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Alessandra Voena
Alessandra Voena is Professor of Economics at Stanford University. She has previously taught at the University of Chicago, been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the economics of the family in developed and developing countries.
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भारत में स्वास्थ्य बीमा तक पहुंच: प्रत्यक्ष और स्पिलओवर प्रभाव
भारत में स्वास्थ्य देखभाल की उच्च लागत के चलते कई कम आय वाले परिवार गरीबी में आ जाते हैं | गरीबी रेखा से नीचे के परिवारों के लिए सरकार द्वारा संचालित राष्ट्रीय स्वास्थ्य बीमा कार्यक्रम - राष्ट्रीय स्वास्थ्य बीमा योजना का लाभ इष्टतम से कम है। यह लेख कर्नाटक में गरीबी रेखा से ऊपर के परिवारों के एक नमूने के लिए अस्पताल बीमा की पेशकश के प्रभाव की जांच करता है। यह बीमा के उपयोग को बढ़ाने में महत्वपूर्ण समकक्ष प्रभाव पाता है; जबकि अस्पताल बीमा का स्वास्थ्य परिणामों पर कोई महत्वपूर्ण प्रभाव नहीं पड़ता है।
Access to health insurance in India: Direct and spillover effects
Many low-income households in India have been pushed into poverty by high healthcare costs. Uptake of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, the government-run national health insurance programme for below poverty line households, has been less than optimal. This article examines the impact of offering hospital insurance to a sample of above poverty line households in Karnataka. It finds significant peer effects in increasing insurance utilisation; hospital insurance however doesn’t have any significant effect on health outcomes.
Covid-19 and mental health: Large-scale phone survey in six Indian states
The Covid-19 pandemic brought with it the dual crises of public health and the economy, particularly in low-income settings with limited formal safety nets. Based on a large-scale phone survey conducted across six Indian states, this article finds that stricter containment measures, while potentially crucial to check the spread of the virus, are associated with worse mental health among women and higher food insecurity.
Impact Evaluation of a Public Health Insurance Plan in India: Post Health Event Survey Pilot
This project pilots a Post Health Event Survey (PHES). The PHES is a potentially more efficient survey strategy than conducting one annual survey of all households. The PHES pilot was conducted in two stages. First, a random sample of households is called to ascertain if the household experienced a serious health event in the last two months.