Bosch, Mariano; Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6 (2014) 4, pp. 71-99
In 2002, the Mexican government began an effort to improve health access to the 50 million uninsured in Mexico, a program known as Seguro Popular (SP). The SP offered virtually free health insurance to informal workers, altering the incentives to operate in the formal economy. We find that the...