Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
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 … expenditures are less responsive to remittance income among lower-income households. Since the lower responsiveness may be …