Heterogeneity of the effects of health insurance on household savings: Evidence from rural China

Diana Cheung () and Ysaline Padieu ()
Additional contact information
Diana Cheung: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Ysaline Padieu: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) from HAL

Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on household saving across income quartiles in rural China. We use data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the 2006 wave and we run an ordinary least squares regression. We control for the endogeneity of NCMS participation by using an instrumental variable strategy. We find evidence that NCMS has a negative impact on savings of lower-middle-income participants, while it does not affect the poorest households. The negative effect of NCMS on savings of middle-income participants holds when we use propensity score matching estimations as a robustness check.

Keywords: Rural China; New Cooperative Medical Scheme; health insurance; Chinese savings and consumption; propensity score matching; Chine rurale; épargne; méthode d'appariement par score de propension; assurance santé (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev, nep-hea, nep-ias and nep-tra
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00848061
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Published in 2013

Downloads: (external link)
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00848061/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:cesptp:halshs-00848061

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().