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 …

households with and without health care coverage. -- Remittances ; health care ; household expenditures ; Mexico …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 …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …

countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …