BACKGROUND This study assessed willingness to pay for National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) among public servants in Juba City. NHIF is the proposed health insurance scheme for South Sudan and aims at achieving universal health coverage for the entire nation's population. One compounding issue is that over the years, governments' spending on healthcare has been decreasing from 8.4% of national ...

Abstract Despite widespread exposure to substantial medical expenditure risk in low-income populations, health insurance enrollment is typically low. This puzzling from the perspective of expected utility theory. To help explain it, this paper introduces a decomposition stated willingness pay (WTP) for into its fair price and three behavioral deviations that due perception attitude consistent w...

How does access to formal microinsurance affect economic development? We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of insurance for sows. We find that providing access to formal insurance significantly increases farmers’ tendency to raise sows. We argue that this finding also suggests that farmers are not previously efficientl...

agricultural insurance is one of the most important mechanisms to providing security for investment in agricultural and natural damage reduction. one of the modern types of insurance is weather index- based insurance that developed based on climatic parameters such as rainfall and temperature. the purpose of this study is to identifying the factors affecting wheat farmer's participation on...

due to urbanization and consequent environmental problems in iran, many people have been interested in improving the weather quality. lack of information about health risks as a result of pollution is a big obstacle which stops policy-making in this regard. the present study examines the type of relationship between low air quality and tehran citizens’ willingness to pay in order to improve wea...