sps: Public health experiment in Mexico

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Public health experiment in Mexico

Description

Data for a randomized assessment of the Mexican universal health insurance programme, both before and after a study which randomly assigned treatment within 74 matched pairs of health clusters — representing 118,569 households in seven Mexican states. See King et al. (2009) for background and details. Data includes variables from a 2005 baseline survey (August, 2005, to September, 2005) and follow-up survey 10 months later (July, 2006, to August, 2006).

Usage

sps

Format

A tibble with 27,569 observations and 8 variables:

age

integer variable with raw age values of respondents

sex

character variable with values "male" and "female"

educ

character variable with values "preschool", "primary", "secondary", "high school", "normal", "technical", "college", and "post-grad"

treatment

binary factor variable for treatment (1) and control (0)

health_exp_m3

double variable for health-related expenses in the last 3 month in pesos

health_exp_m1

double variable for health-related expenses in the last month in pesos

t2_health_exp_m1
t2_health_exp_m3

Author(s)

David Kane

Source

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/P6NC0M


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