Why the Development of Health Insurance Is Regionally Imbalanced: Evidence from China

Lingyan Suo and Ruiyun Wanyan

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2017, vol. 53, issue 6, 1301-1317

Abstract: As China adopted an imbalanced development strategy to obtain rapid economic growth, it is getting more and more urgent to find out a feasible way to balanced development of social safety network. This study measures the degree of regional disparities in China’s health insurance industry and explores the rationales by a thorough examination of health insurance purchasing behavior. An empirical analysis is conducted, based on a panel data of 31 provinces from 2004 to 2014, to test the hypothesis. We find that the regional disparities would be significantly affected by the variables including age structure, education, income, availability of health resources, density of population, and substitutes.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2016.1190705

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