| Autor institucional : | Oxford Open Economics, Volume 4, pp.i615–i630. |
| Autor/Autores: | Ana L De La O, Cecilia Rossel, Pilar Manzi |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025-01-15 |
| Alcance geográfico: | Latinoamericano |
| Publicado en: | Reino Unido |
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| Resumen: | The opting out of public services and the segregation of income groups has raised concerns about the future of Latin America’s fragmented social contract. We examine the evolution of private education and health insurance use in selected countries from 2000 to 2018 and its association with socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes relevant to the social contract. Our results show that wealthy households and a substantial proportion of the middle class are out of the public education system. Opting out of public health is only prevalent among wealthy households. For both policy domains, however, we find that people who use private services have worse evaluations of public services, express less support for the public provision of those services and are less supportive of redistribution than people inside the public systems. We discuss the implications of these descriptive findings for the sustainability of the public provision of services and the social contract. |
