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Distress Healthcare Financing among Informal-sector Workers: A Study in Purulia District, West Bengal, India

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  • Dasgupta, Souvik
  • Kundu, Amit

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Based on a micro-level field investigation conducted in the Purulia district of West Bengal (a state in India), the present paper investigates the factors influencing the incidence of distress healthcare financing among the households whose principal earning members are working as informal workers. Distress healthcare financing is defined as a situation when a household has to borrow money with interest, and/or sell assets/livestock to pay its out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. It was found that distress healthcare financing was highly influenced by catastrophic healthcare expenditure, the proportion of working members & occupation of principal earning members.

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  • Dasgupta, Souvik & Kundu, Amit, 2022. "Distress Healthcare Financing among Informal-sector Workers: A Study in Purulia District, West Bengal, India," MPRA Paper 114347, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 19 May 2022.
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    Keywords

    Catastrophic healthcare expenditure; Distress healthcare financing; Informal worker; Instrumental variables estimation;
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    JEL classification:

    • C5 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling
    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • R2 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis

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