Social learning and health insurance enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2013.10.012

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	Social learning and health insurance enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
	Liu, Hong 1; Sun, Qi 2; Zhao, Zhong 3,4
刊名	JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
	2014-01
卷号	97 页码:84-102
关键词	Rural China Health insurance Social learning Peer effects
ISSN号	0167-2681
DOI	10.1016/j.jebo.2013.10.012
英文摘要	This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the enrollment rate in a village increases one's take-up probability by 5 percentage points. Using multiple model specifications, we show that the estimated social effects are not driven by simultaneity or common unobserved factors but are consistent with the hypothesis of social learning. We also find that the importance of social effects decreases significantly with households' familiarity with the NCMS as well as with the development of alternative information channels, which further ascertains that the primary mechanism for the social effects is social learning. The evidence suggests that healthier, wealthier, relatively well-educated, older Han male household heads tend to be opinion leaders. (C) 2013 Elsevier BM. All rights reserved.
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
WOS记录号	WOS:000330823400007
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/1869]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Sun, Qi
作者单位	1.Cent Univ Finance & Econ, China Econ & Management Acad, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China; 2.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Int Business Adm, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China; 3.Renmin Univ China, Sch Labor & Human Resources, Beijing 100872, Peoples R China; 4.Inst Study Lab IZA, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Hong,Sun, Qi,Zhao, Zhong. Social learning and health insurance enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme[J]. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION,2014,97:84-102.
APA	Liu, Hong,Sun, Qi,&Zhao, Zhong.(2014).Social learning and health insurance enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme.JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION,97,84-102.
MLA	Liu, Hong,et al."Social learning and health insurance enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme".JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION 97(2014):84-102.