HEALTH INSURANCE AND MEDICAL IMPOVERISHMENT IN RURAL CHINA: EVIDENCE FROM GUIZHOU PROVINCE

文献类型: 外文期刊

第一作者: Zhang, Yumei

作者: Zhang, Yumei;Filipski, Mateusz J.;Chen, Kevin Z.

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关键词: Health insurance; medical expenditure; poverty; inequality

期刊名称:SINGAPORE ECONOMIC REVIEW ( 影响因子:1.8; 五年影响因子:1.8 )

ISSN: 0217-5908

年卷期: 2019 年 64 卷 3 期

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收录情况: SCI

摘要: We analyze the effects of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on poverty, using micro-level household data from 17 villages in a poor area of China's Guizhou province. A four-wave panel dataset allows us to follow NCMS through its reforms. First-order impact assessments suggest NCMS helps reduce the poverty rate by up to 3 percentage points, and the poverty gap by up to 15 percentage points. It also reduces the contribution of health expenditures to inequality as measured by Gini coefficient. The benefits of NCMS in terms of poverty and inequality appear considerably larger after major reforms in 2009, which expanded benefits and coverage.

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