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CONFERENCE "Aggregation
and Insurance-Mortality Estimation"
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William Dow
Researcher
University of North Carolina
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Miércoles, 10 de
Septiembre del 2005
11:00 a.m.
II Nivel del edificio del CCP (Click para ver el mapa)
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.
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Las conferencias
están organizadas por los estudiantes de la maestría en Población y
Salud, con el apoyo de Roger Bonilla, Andrea Collado, Aarón
Ramírez y la supervisión del prof. Luis Rosero.
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