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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2022
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15490
Verlag: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru. We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours, such as children's regular growth checks-ups and deworming treatments, the duration of breastfeeding, and a substitution of foods rich in carbohydrates for other foods rich in proteins. In contrast, we do not find any effect on other outcomes typically related to other interventions.
Schlagwörter: 
children's health
obesity
overweight
public health insurance
health behaviors
nutrition
breast-feeding
JEL: 
I18
J13
Dokumentart: 
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