Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189573 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Documento de Trabajo No. 18
Publisher: 
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), La Plata
Abstract: 
This paper discusses the use of aggregate and microeconometric decompositions to compare benefit-incidence results over time and across regions. Decompositions are applied to explore changes in targeting in health policies directed to pregnant women and children under 4 in Argentina. The results suggest that although health public programs are pro-poor, incidence changes in the last 5 years have been pro-rich due to two different factors: a substantial reduction in the fertility rate of poor couples, and an increase in the use of public facilities by wealthier households, likely triggered by the economic crisis that Argentina has suffered since 1998.
Subjects: 
protección
informalidad
empleo
América Latina.
JEL: 
J2
J6
D3
O54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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