Publications by authors named "Hilaire Gbodja Houeninvo"
Health shocks are common and have serious consequences for households in developing countries where health insurance is lacking. In this study, we examine whether out-of-pocket health expenditures crowd out household consumption of non-healthcare necessities, such as education items in Benin using a sample of 14,952 households from the global vulnerability and food security analysis survey. We estimated a system of conditional Engel curves with three stage least squared (3SLS) and seemingly unrelated regression (SURE) for seven categories of goods using the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) in the form of budget shares corresponding to proportions of total non-health expenditure.
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- In 2008, the Benin government launched a national health insurance scheme, which was later suspended in 2017; this study examines the factors influencing its policy-making process and content during that period.
- The methodology involved case study design, data collection through documents, quantitative analyses, and interviews with key informants, along with content analysis.
- The findings highlight strong stakeholder interest in the scheme, which was viewed as more sustainable than user fee exemptions, but implementation issues and lack of support hindered its success, resulting in low subscription rates and usage.