Latinaer.springeropen.com
Does access to free health insurance crowd-out private transfers
WEBThis study examines whether Seguro Popular, a free-of-charge publicly provided health insurance program for otherwise uninsured households, crowded-out private transfers in Mexico. Using data from the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, the effects of Seguro Popular are identified using the spatial …
Actived: 8 days ago
URL: https://latinaer.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s40503-015-0021-y
Does access to health insurance reduce the risk of miscarriages
WEBThis paper analyzes whether Mexico’s de-facto non-contributory health insurance program Seguro Popular had an effect on the risk of miscarriage during pregnancy. Using data on pregnancies over the 2004–08 period from the 2009 round of the National Survey on Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), and employing the staggered roll …
Time goes by so slowly (for those who wait): a field experiment in
WEBWe exploit a unique field experiment to recover the willingness to pay (WTP) for shorter waiting times at a cataract detection clinic in Mexico City, and compare the results with those obtained through a hypothetical dichotomous choice questionnaire. The WTP to avoid a minute of wait obtained from the field experiment ranges from 0.59 to …
Climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: policy options …
WEBAlthough climate change is filled with uncertainties, a broad set of policies proposed to address this issue can be grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope with climate change have stressed the importance of mitigation, which ideally requires a global agreement that is still lacking. …
US–Mexico border tourism and day trips: an aberration
WEBWe examine the influence of two distinct regime changes in US border security on the number of persons traveling from the US into Mexico on day trips. In contrast to increases in overall US tourism to Mexico and rapidly growing trade linkages, day trips to Mexico fell by over 20 % between 2000 and 2012. In the popular press, the …
Intergenerational transmission of education: the relative …
WEBIntergenerational mobility in education is a complex phenomenon that does not rely on a single mechanism. The literature identified three main channels of transmission (Chevalier 2004).The first channel is the biological transmission of ability, the second refers to the dependence of schooling outcome on the economic situation of the …
The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America
WEBThe health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In light of this, the region faces two main challenges: (1) develop cost-effective policies to prevent …
An analysis of economic incentives to encourage organ donation
WEBWe perform a cost–benefit analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indifferent between donating and not donating a kidney while alive using Chilean data. We find that monetary incentives of US$12,000 save US$38,000 to health care system per …
Impact of environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns …
WEBBy means of a single-bounded, referendum format contingent valuation, this paper estimates willingness to pay (WTP) for improved air quality among residents of Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA). Findings from this paper illustrate heterogeneity in WTP associated with environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns. For …
Do Mexicans care about air pollution
WEBThis paper follows a residential sorting model to calculate marginal willingness to pay for a reduction in air pollution. Our estimates imply that the household head in Mexico would pay $443.66 to $2,682.92 (in constant 2000 Mexican pesos) or 46.90–283.61 (2000 dollars) for a one-unit reduction in Particulate Matter emissions per …
Pollution and the choice of where to work and live
WEBGlobal air pollution continues to increase across the world, and Mexico City is one of the most polluted cities in the western hemisphere. This paper considers the tradeoff between wages, housing characteristics, and air quality in the conjoint decision of where a household decides to live and work. We estimate compensating differentials using a …
The impact of pharmaceutical innovation on cancer
WEBThe effect of a drug’s launch on mortality is likely to depend on both the quality and the quantity of the drug. Indeed, it is likely to depend on the interaction between quality and quantity: a quality improvement will have a greater impact on mortality if drug utilization (quantity) is high. Although newer drugs tend to be of higher quality than older …
Road safety: challenges and opportunities in Latin America and the
WEBAn estimated 1.3 million people die in traffic accidents each year worldwide and millions more are injured, with developing countries disproportionately affected. It is predicted that the number of global traffic deaths will be around 1.8 million annually by 2030, making it the eight cause of death in the world. This paper provides an overview of …
Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public …
WEBLatin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region in the developing world. Its urbanization rate of almost 80 % is comparable to that of high-income countries. However, cities in the region are struggling to provide the infrastructure needed for their millions of residents to enjoy a decent quality of life. This paper focuses on …
Evidence-based gender equality policy and pay in Latin
WEBThis paper aims to identify the main contributing factors to the observed gender pay inequality in the last 10 years in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also aims to identify the main restrictions to design evidence-based policy. The average woman in the region works 25 h more per month than the average man. Yet only half of women in the …
On intergenerational (im)mobility in Latin America
WEBThis paper studies intergenerational mobility in Latin America and shows that, in addition to the well-documented fact that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opportunities persist from one generation to the next. Comparing final educational achievements for 18 Latin American countries, this …
Pass-through and competition: the impact of soft drink taxes as …
WEBIn January 2014, Mexico addressed its epidemic of obesity by implementing an excise tax of 1 peso (1 MXN) per liter on soft drinks. This study evaluates the pass-through of the tax, the influence on the tax of competition among different stores, and the after-tax price dispersion. Using an unbalanced panel of weekly prices for 553 stores …
Implicit redistribution within Argentina’s social security system: a
WEBThe intra-generational redistribution in the Argentinean pension program is assessed in a lifetime basis. Using household surveys, the lifetime flows of labor income, contributions and retirement benefits are simulated. Then, the expected present values of pre- and post-social security labor income are computed. The results show that the pay …
Top Categories
Popular Searched
› Allegheny health gallery drive
› United healthcare oxford doctor search
› International allied health professions day
› Northern illinois health services
› Presbyterian mental health socorro nm
› Socorro mental health center
Recently Searched
› Behavioral health san antonio texas
› Blanchard valley health system download
› Healthy homemade caesar salad dressing
› Gulf coast health care bankruptcy
› Healthy benefits plus food items
› Clinton health campus locations
› Total health pharmacy watton state
› Capital health hospital charges 2021
› Baptist health university florida
› Advent health endocrinology apopka