caa a22 4500 44586401X CHVBK 20180317145452.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11150-009-9080-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11150-009-9080-7 New evidence on the role of remittances on healthcare expenditures by Mexican households [Elektronische Daten] [Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo] Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is almost three times greater than their sensitivity to changes in other sources of household income. Furthermore, health care expenditures are less responsive to remittance income among lower-income households. Since the lower responsiveness may be partially due to participation of lower-income households in public programs like PROGRESA (now called Oportunidades), we also analyze the impact of remittances by health care coverage. As expected, we find that households with some kind of health care coverage—either through their jobs or via participation in PROGRESA—spend less of remittance income increments on health care than households lacking any health care coverage. Hence, remittances may help equalize health care expenditures across households with and without health care coverage. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2009 Remittances nationallicence Household expenditures nationallicence Healthcare nationallicence Mexico nationallicence Amuedo-Dorantes Catalina Department of Economics, San Diego State University, 92182, San Diego, CA, USA aut Pozo Susan Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, 49008, Kalamazoo, MI, USA aut Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/1(2011-03-01), 69-98 1569-5239 9:1<69 2011 9 11150 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-009-9080-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-009-9080-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Amuedo-Dorantes Catalina Department of Economics, San Diego State University, 92182, San Diego, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pozo Susan Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, 49008, Kalamazoo, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/1(2011-03-01), 69-98 1569-5239 9:1<69 2011 9 11150 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer