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The Spending Responses to Adverse Health Shocks: Evidence from a Panel of Colombian Households

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  • Cortes, Darwin
  • Gallegos, Andrés
  • Perez Perez, Jorge

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We analyze the effect of adverse health shocks on households' different expenditure shares using a difference in differences approach. We find that households engage in substitution between health and food spending in response to the negative health shocks. We find substantial heterogeneity in this trade-off between current and future health mediated by access to social protection, job contract type, and location (urban-rural). Households from rural areas, with heads holding informal jobs, and without access to safety nets, are more vulnerable than others. We discuss several policy implications.

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  • Cortes, Darwin & Gallegos, Andrés & Perez Perez, Jorge, 2021. "The Spending Responses to Adverse Health Shocks: Evidence from a Panel of Colombian Households," SocArXiv vh2qa, Center for Open Science.
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    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/vh2qa
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    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • J46 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Informal Labor Market

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