With both an aging population and a transition from communicable to chronic diseases, the health of the elderly is a … health check-ups. This paper exploits the phasing-in of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Progresa, between 1997 … deaths are a leading cause of death in Mexico, and in the top 10 causes of death in many high- and middle-income countries …

This paper examines the impact of universal health coverage on cohabitation, marriage, and labor force participation …. Economic gains from marriage when non-labor income increases among partners. I use the expansion of non-contributory health … insurance in Mexico to test this. This insurance scheme, called Seguro Popular (SP), provides a minimum set of health benefits …

areas in Mexico. This paper uses the variation in program intensity over time and space induced by the roll-out, comparing …'s impacts. I find that the program substantially reduced out-of-pocket health expenditures of beneficiaries and caused them to … shift from private to public providers. However, the program had a negligible effect on the health of beneficiaries, perhaps …

rural communities in Mexico in 2003 as part of the evaluation of the program. Oportunidades decreases behavioral problems …Adequate health, nutrition, and education during childhood are essential for human development. Deficits in these … disadvantages in child development take up an important place in the social agenda. The Mexican Oportunidades program is such a …

This paper studies the effects of macroeconomic shocks in employment and wages for the case of Mexico. I find that … young and unskilled workers are the most affected by an economic shock in terms of unemployment, labor force participation … and employment composition. The theoretical findings imply that the elasticities of labor supply in the formal and …

of international aid and health expenditures on decreasing mortality may be a signal of structural differences between …

), to the 50 million uninsured in Mexico. In doing so, the states and municipalities offered virtually free health insurance …In 2002, the Mexican government began a tremendous financial effort to provide health insurance, Seguro Popular (SP … estimate the effects of the SP in the labor market. We find that the SP had a negative effect in the creation of formal jobs …

In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the … level in order to differentiate between a competitive and a monopsonistic structured labor market. The composition of the … sector-specific labor market serves again as a basis to evaluate whether the consequences of the minimum wage can be taken as …