Remittances and the household's expenditures on health

This paper considers the effect of remittances on the share of health expenditures to total household expenditure. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate whether remittances are especially targeted towards household’s health in Mexico. We use a Tobit model with random effects and find a st...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valero Gil, Jorge Noel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Center for Business and Economic Research, Sam Houston State University 2009
Online Access:http://eprints.uanl.mx/7523/1/Remittances%20and%20the%20Household%C2%B4s%20Expenditures%20on%20Health.pdf