NDLI: New evidence on the role of remittances on healthcare expenditures by Mexican households

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Author	Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina Pozo, Susan
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Using Mexico’s 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is almost three times greater than their sensitivity to changes in other sources of household income. Furthermore, health care expenditures are less responsive to remittance income among lower-income households. Since the lower responsiveness may be partially due to participation of lower-income households in public programs like PROGRESA (now called Oportunidades), we also analyze the impact of remittances by health care coverage. As expected, we find that households with some kind of health care coverage—either through their jobs or via participation in PROGRESA—spend less of remittance income increments on health care than households lacking any health care coverage. Hence, remittances may help equalize health care expenditures across households with and without health care coverage.
Starting Page	69
Ending Page	98
Page Count	30
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15695239
Journal	Review of Economics of the Household
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737152
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2009-12-10
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Remittances Household expenditures Healthcare Mexico Social Sciences Population Economics Labor Economics Microeconomics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences Economics and Econometrics

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