The Effect of Publicly Provided Health Insurance on Education Outcomes in Mexico
利用墨西哥2007-2010年市级面板数据，研究发现公共医疗保险扩张显著提高了儿童入学率和标准化考试成绩，对评估健康干预的教育溢出效应有参考价值。
In this paper we study the causal effect of a large expansion of publicly provided health insurance on school enrollment rates and on children's academic performance using the case of Mexico. Access to free health insurance could improve education outcomes directly by making household members healthier or indirectly by raising the amount of resources available for education expenses. Using a panel of municipalities from 2007 to 2010, we find that the expansion of the Mexican public health insurance program, Seguro Popular, had a large positive, statistically significant effect on school enrollment rates and on standardized test scores.