The impact of subsidized health insurance in the access to and use of health care in Medellín, Colombia

• Published in: Lecturas de economía no. 82
• Main Authors: Sara Atehortúa, Lina Palacio-Mejía
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Antioquia 01.03.2015
• Subjects: access to and use of health care; Medellín; propensity score matching; public policy evaluation; subsidized health insurance; évaluation des politiques publiques

To evaluate the impact of this policy in Medellín, we use the 2008 Quality of Life Survey and, with the propensity score matching technique, we find a comparison group similar to the target group. Stratification, nearest neighbor, and kernel density estimators are used to calculate the size of the i...