The Effect of Publicly Provided Health Insurance on Education Outcomes in Mexico
In this paper we study the causal effect of a large expansion of publicly provided health insurance on school enrollment rates and on children’s academic performance using the case of Mexico. Access to free health insurance could improve education...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110751565616629515/The-Effect-of-Publicly-Provided-Health-Insurance-on-Education-Outcomes-in-Mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32240 |
| Summary: | In this paper we study the causal effect
of a large expansion of publicly provided health insurance
on school enrollment rates and on children’s academic
performance using the case of Mexico. Access to free health
insurance could improve education outcomes directly by
making household members healthier or indirectly by raising
the amount of resources available for education expenses.
Using a panel of municipalities from 2007 to 2010, we find
that the expansion of the Mexican public health insurance
program, Seguro Popular, had a large positive, statistically
significant effect on school enrollment rates and on
standardized test scores. |
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