Does Health Insurance Help the Aged

DOI

10.2991/icmesd-19.2019.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Impact evaluation, Health assessment, Difference in difference, Propensity score match, Lasso regression.

Abstract

This paper discussed the effect of a health insurance program, New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) from China, on the elderly’s reported health status. Using a Difference-in-Difference strategy, this paper finds evidence that the program has strengthened elders’ daily activity livings and improved access to medical facility for those participants to secure on-time help. Issues regarding adverse selection is also discussed.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhu Li
AU  - Yu-Xue Cheng
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Does Health Insurance Help the Aged
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 391
EP  - 401
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmesd-19.2019.59
DO  - 10.2991/icmesd-19.2019.59
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