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Remittances and the household’s expenditures on health

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Valero-Gil, Jorge

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This paper considers the effect of remittances on the share of health expenditures to total household expenditure. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate whether remittances are especially targeted towards household’s health in Mexico. We use a Tobit model with random effects and find a statistically significant effect of remittances on the proportion of health expenditures for households that do not have access to employment’s medical insurance: Our results suggest that around 10% of changes in remittances are devoted to health expenditure.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 9572.

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Keywords: Health expenditure Remittances Tobit Health related consumption

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D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Production
F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances

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