Expenditure Responses to Adverse Health Shocks: Evidence from a Panel of Colombian Households

Darwin Cortés, A Gallegos-Vargas () and Jorge Pérez Pérez

No 20787, Documentos de Trabajo from Universidad del Rosario

Abstract: We analyze the effect of adverse health shocks on households’ expenditure shares in different good categories using a fixed-effects approach and a structural approach based on microeconomic theory. We find that households substitute health and food expenditure in response to adverse health shocks. We find substantial heterogeneity in this trade-off between current and future health mediated by access to social protection, job contract type, and location (urban rural). Households from rural areas –where household heads are more likely to hold informal jobs and lack access to safety nets– are more vulnerable than others. Our findings suggest that access to formal employment and a higher quality of local institutions can help mitigate the negative consequences of health shocks.

Keywords: health shocks; household expenditure; informal labor; urban-rural (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44
Date: 2023-06-15
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Working Paper: The Spending Responses to Adverse Health Shocks: Evidence from a Panel of Colombian Households (2021)
Working Paper: Expenditure Responses to Adverse Health Shocks: Evidence from a Panel of Colombian Households (2021)
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