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Does access to free health insurance crowd-out private transfers?: evidence from Mexico’s Seguro Popular
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-09-24)
This study examines whether Seguro Popular, a free-of-charge publicly provided health insurance program for otherwise uninsured households, crowdedout private transfers in Mexico. Using data from the National Household ...
A dynamic factor model for the Mexican economy: are common trends useful when predicting economic activity?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-09-15)
In this paper we propose to use the common trends of the Mexican economy in order to predict economic activity one and two steps ahead. We exploit the cointegration properties of the macroeconomic time series, such that, ...