Health Insurance for All: An Evaluation of Mexicos Seguro Popular Program
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This paper evaluates the e¤ects of Seguro Popular on household and individual level health-related consumption, health spending, health outcomes, and labor supply. First introduced in 2002, Seguro Popular provides free health care to the fty percent of Mexican families that lack the social security protections granted to all formal sector workers in that country. The Seguro Popular program was introduced in stages, across municipalities and time. I exploit this variation and implement a modi ed di¤erence-in-di¤erence analysis to evaluate the e¤ects of the program on a panel of households between 2002 and 2004. I nd signi cant increases in health care utilization, especially for children, but little change in spending or health outcomes. Labor supply decreased overall for secondary workers, especially young males, but older adults see a signi cant increase in hours worked.
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