The Impact of Social Health Insurance on Student Performance: Evidence From an RDD in Peru
研究利用秘鲁的断点回归设计，发现社会医疗保险显著提高了学生的数学和阅读成绩，主要机制是降低了儿童和家庭成员的贫血发生率。
The literature on the effects of social health insurance focuses on its stated goals, which are health status and financial protection. In contrast, we examine the effect of the Peruvian program on student performance using a sharp RDD. We use a unique individual-level database built from the merger of household survey data and standardized test scores from a national census. We find that social health insurance has large effects on mathematics and reading comprehension scores. The clearest mechanism is a lower incidence of anemia among children and family members.