Health Care Reform and Farm Women’s Off-Farm Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Taiwan

Pei-An Liao and J. Edward Taylor

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2010, vol. 35, issue 2, 18

Abstract: Do non-wage fringe benefits affect women’s off-farm work decisions? We test the impact of the 1995 introduction of universal National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan on off-farm labor force participation (LFP) among farm wives. Our results, based on a difference-in- differences approach, indicate that employment-delinked NHI reduced farm wives’ off-farm LFP by 9.6 to 13.6 percentage points. The larger impact was for wives from small farm households. The health insurance reform had a larger negative impact on overall LFP among married women in agricultural households than in nonagricultural households.

Keywords: Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.93218

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