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"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. Since Brazil's adoption of a universal health care policy in 1988, the country's health care has been delivered by a mix of private providers and free public providers. We examine whether income-based disparities in medical care usage still exist after the development of the public network using a nationally representative sample of over 46,000 Brazilians from 2003. We find robust evidence of a positive association between income and doctor visits, private doctor visits, and private medical expenditures. Interestingly, we also find a pro-rich disparity in public doctor visits that disappears after including local area fixed effects to account for variation in availability and quality of medical services across localities. We then estimate the income elasticity of private medical expenditures to be well below one, suggesting that private care remains a necessity despite the availability of free public care. These results suggest that the public health care system in Brazil is not effectively reaching the segments of the population that need it most"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

AbstractThis article studies voter behavior in Argentina. Do voters vote based on issues? Do they vote based on economic performance? What segments of the population are more or less likely to do so? What is the relative impact of issues and the economy in vote choice? To provide a reliable answer to these questions, this study uses a mixed-logit model of spatial voting with nonpolicy components. Contrary to the common belief, the analysis finds that issue voting is a statistically significant and important factor. Economic voting is prevalent in the middle and upper classes, but not among poor voters.

El presente trabajo intenta introducir la temática del estado actual de las microfinanzas en Argentina. Para ello se combina el abordaje teórico con el práctico. El análisis teórico gira en torno a los conflictos entre sustentabilidad e impacto social, por un lado y sustentabilidad y escala por el otro, conceptos que se definen en el texto. El análisis empírico, por su parte, consta de una descripción de la situación de las microfinanzas en Argentina basada en los datos disponibles, más un estudio de campo. Este último, realizado a los efectos de comprender el impacto de los conflictos mencionados en la estructura de microfinanzas particular de Argentina.