Speaker
Malte Becker
Description
In this paper, I study the effect of Mobile Street Clinics on health care utilization and social assistance uptake among the homeless in Brazil. I exploit the staggered introduction of Mobile Street Clinics across different municipalities in a difference-in-differences setting, comparing never- or later-treated to earlier-treated municipalities. I find that the opening of a Mobile Street Clinic is associated with a strong increase in primary health care utilization among homeless indivduals, without affecting social assistance utilization. The results provide first quantitative evidence for the effectiveness of delivering targeted health care to the homeless.
Primary author
Malte Becker
