Does health insurance coverage lead to better child health?Evidence from China
作者机构：School of FinanceNankai UniversityNo.38 Tongyan RoadJinnan DistrictTianjin 300350People’s Republic of China Research Center of Healthy Aging and Social SecurityNankai UniversityNo.38 Tongyan RoadJinnan DistrictTianjin 300350People’s Republic of China Harold Walter Siebens School of BusinessBuena Vista University610 W.4th StreetStorm LakeIA 50588United States
出 版 物：《China Population and Development Studies》 (当代中国人口与发展（英文）)
年 卷 期：2019年第3卷第3期
页 面：1-23页
学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学]
基 金：the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.16BRK019)
主 题：Medical insurance Child health IV probit Path analysis China
摘 要：Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey,this study investigated the impact of health insurance coverage on children’s health in *** address the potential endogeneity between insurance and health,we adopted the instrumental variable probit *** found that insurance enrollment significantly improved the health of children,especially urban children,but there was no significant insurance effect across *** using the propensity score matching method,an alternative measure of child health,and a sub-sample of children aged above 10,our major finding of the insurance effect on child health is verified and *** further conducted the path analysis by identifying three potential paths through which medical insurance improved child *** found that child health behaviour and nutritional intake are the effective paths between insurance enrollment and health *** results provided implications for policy makers in constructing and developing the supportive system of child medical insurance in China.
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