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- Title
The New Cooperative Medical Scheme and Self-Employment in Rural China.
- Authors
Baozhong Su; Thierry, Gatwaza Hategekimana; Qihui Chen; Qiran Zhao
- Abstract
Using panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study estimates the effect of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on self-employment in rural China, based on a difference-in-differences method (combined with propensity score matching). Specifically, we compare employment status of the participants and non-participants groups before and after the NCMS was implemented (within the common-support region). We found that the NCMS increased a rural resident's likelihood of shifting from working for others to self-employed by 38 percentage points and that of shifting from temporarily employed to self-employed by 23 percentage points. These results suggest that apart from reducing uncertainty in future spending for the insured due to catastrophic illness, universal health insurance could also have a positive effect on the labor market, namely, that of increasing rates of self-employment.
- Subjects
NATIONAL health insurance; SELF-employment; PROPENSITY score matching
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2017, Vol 9, Issue 2, p304
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su9020304