Aggregation and insurance-mortality estimation

dc.contributor.author	Dow, William H.
dc.contributor.author	González, Kristine A.
dc.contributor.author	Rosero Bixby, Luis
dc.date.accessioned	2021-12-10T13:10:55Z
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-18T03:29:42Z
dc.date.available	2021-12-10T13:10:55Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-18T03:29:42Z
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.description.abstract	One goal of government health insurance programs is to improve health, yet little is known empirically about how important such government interventions can be in explaining health transitions. We analyze the child mortality effects of a major health insurance expansion in Costa Rica. In contrast to previous work in this area that has used aggregated ecological designs, we exploit census data to estimate individual-level models. Theoretical and empirical econometric results indicate that aggregation can introduce substantial upward biases in the insurance effects. Overall we find a statistically significant but quite small effect of health insurance on child mortality in Costa Rica.	es_CR
dc.description.pages	1-41
dc.description.uri	https://www.nber.org/papers/w9827
dc.identifier.uri	https://repositorio.sibdi.ucr.ac.cr/handle/123456789/17316
dc.language.iso	eng	es_CR
dc.publisher	National Bureau of Economic Research	es_CR
dc.subject	SEGURIDAD SOCIAL	es_CR
dc.subject	SALUD	es_CR
dc.subject	MORTALIDAD INFANTIL	es_CR
dc.title	Aggregation and insurance-mortality estimation	es_CR
dc.type	Working Paper	es_CR

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