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Arianna Ornaghi and co-authors study challenges for universal healthcare in developing countries
In the American Economic Review, they examine policy tools that might boost enrolment in contributory healthcare plans. Over the last ten years, many developing countries have introduced contributory health insurance programmes aimed at reaching universal health coverage. While the programmes subsidise the poor, everyone else must pay a premium. Collecting these is difficult, because a large fraction of the population works in the informal sector, which is outside the tax net