@techreport{NBERw15456,
 title = "Risk Protection, Service Use, and Health Outcomes Under Colombia’s Health Insurance Program for the Poor",
 author = "Grant Miller and Diana M. Pinto and Marcos Vera-Hernández",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "15456",
 year = "2009",
 month = "October",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w15456",
 abstract = {Unexpected medical care spending imposes considerable financial risk on developing country households. Based on managed care models of health insurance in wealthy countries, Colombia’s Régimen Subsidiado is a publicly financed insurance program targeted to the poor, aiming both to provide risk protection and to promote allocative efficiency in the use of medical care. Using a “fuzzy” regression discontinuity design, we find that the program has shielded the poor from some financial risk while increasing the use of traditionally under-utilized preventive services – with measurable health gains.},
}