IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/elt/journl/v86y2019i343p667-713.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Efectos heterogéneos y distributivos del Seguro Popular sobre la oferta de servicios de salud en México

Author

Listed:
  • Huffman, Curtis

    (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

  • Van Gameren, Edwin

    (El Colegio de México)

Abstract

Background: The effects that the expansion of the Seguro Popular (SP), Mexico’s universal —according to the government— health insurance program, has had on the human and material resources needed to meet the new demand remain largely unexplored. It is a key piece in the quest for universal healthcare that we analyze in this paper. Methodology: Unlike previous evaluations, we use sanitary jurisdictions as units of analysis and operationalize SP’s intervention as a continuous treatment indicator (relative to the number of recipients). Results: Estimates using a variety of propensity score approaches suggest that, on the average, SP effectively has had a positive impact on Mexico’s health resources. However, quantile and interaction treatment effects also suggest unexpected distributional effects on health resources. Conclusions: Overall, our results suggest that the program may be leaving behind some of the most vulnerable geographical areas.

Suggested Citation

  • Huffman, Curtis & Van Gameren, Edwin, 2019. "Efectos heterogéneos y distributivos del Seguro Popular sobre la oferta de servicios de salud en México," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 86(343), pages 667-713, julio-sep.
    • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:86:y:2019:i:343:p:667-713
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v86i343.719
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.eltrimestreeconomico.com.mx/index.php/te/article/view/719
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v86i343.719?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    generalized propensity score methods; continuous treatments; quantile treatment effects; interaction treatment effects; Mexico; Seguro Popular; causal inference.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:86:y:2019:i:343:p:667-713. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Nuria Pliego Vinageras (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.