Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Ageing: Mexico in the 1980s and 1900s

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Titel: Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Ageing : Mexico in the 1980s and 1900s

Beteiligte: Cutler, David M. [VerfasserIn]; Knaul, Felicia [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Lozano, Rafael [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Mendez, Oscar [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Zurita, Beatriz [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]

Erschienen: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2012]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (59 p)

Sprache: Englisch

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Anmerkungen: In: Journal of Public Economics, 84(2):279-303
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2002 erstellt

Beschreibung: We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four widescale economic crises in Mexico in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates were about 5 to 7 percent higher in the crisis years compared to the years just prior to the crisis. This translates into a 0.4 percent increase in mortality for the elderly and a 0.06 percent increase in mortality for the very young. We find tentative evidence that economic crises affect mortality by reducing incomes and possibly by placing a greater burden on the medical sector, but not by forcing less healthy members of the population to work or by forcing primary caregivers to go to work

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