Spousal labor market effects from government health insurance: Evidence from a veterans affairs expansion

Boyle, Melissa A.; Lahey, Joanna

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.11.005

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“…We adjust sample, method and variables to check the robustness of this study. First, as the age meet or surpass the retirement age, individuals may reduce their labour supply since they may like to enjoy more leisure time in the company of their spouses if the marginal utility for leisure is higher than that of working on labour market [39,40]. Therefore, we re-estimate the DD models by restricting the analyses sample to workers aged less than the mandatory retirement ages in China (50 years old for women and 60 years old for men).…”

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The Spillover Effects of Spousal Chronic Diseases on Married Couples’ Labour Supply: Evidence from China

Zheng

Tan

2019

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The objective of this study is to examine the spillover effects of chronic diseases experienced by spouses on their wives or husbands’ labour supply. Using data from 2010 and 2012 of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study employed a difference-in-difference (DD) strategy to investigate the average treatment effect of affected adults on their spouses’ working hours. The results show that, after their spouses were diagnosed with chronic diseases, the average weekly working hours of wives and husbands would be significantly reduced by 3.7–4.2 h and 3.8–4.4 h, respectively. Specially, the average weekly hours of full-time work would be reduced by 2.1–3.3 h for wives and 3.6–3.8 h for husbands. The effect was stronger for those married couples with lower socioeconomic status (SES), such as low-level education, family asset, non-labour income, while the effect was insignificant for high-level SES households. Therefore, as a result of the adverse spillover effects on household labour supply, chronic diseases could cause a greater loss of labour force productivity. Additionally, households in low levels of SES may suffer more losses from reduced labour supply when spousal chronic diseases take place.

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The Spillover Effects of Spousal Chronic Diseases on Married Couples’ Labour Supply: Evidence from China

Zheng

Tan

2019

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“…In a difference-in-differences model, the parallel trend assumption that treatment and control group would not trend differentially during this time period in the absence of a policy change should be satisfied. A common approach to test this assumption is to compare the time trend of fertility outcomes between the treatment and control group before the treatment (i.e., the NRPS in this study) takes place [27] [28]. However, we cannot observe such a time trend because the baseline survey of the CFPS was launched in 2010 while the NRPS started in 2009.…”

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The fertility effects of public pension: Evidence from the new rural pension scheme in China

Zheng

Yang

2020

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Public pension insurance has become a major form of social protection around the world. However, little is known about the association between public pension expansion and individuals' fertility in developing economies. In this paper, we examine the effects of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) on the fertility of married women in rural China. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), the difference-indifferences approach is employed to estimate the impact of NRPS expansion on fertility outcomes. The robustness of results is checked through additional estimations, including difference-indifferences with propensity score matching, fixed-effects model, and instrumental variable approach. Results show that the NRPS expansion has a significantly negative effect on the number of children, and it reduces the likelihood of having a second child. The fertility-reducing effect of the NRPS is larger for the younger, well-educated women and those in high-income families. Considerations of the fertility effects and their population differences are needed in the impact evaluations of relevant public pension reform.

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“…Studies have investigated the effect of health insurance on labor supply and retirement behavior earlier [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. Boyle and Lahey [ 6 ] use the Current Population Survey (CPS) data study to reveal that participating in health insurance encourages older people to reduce labor supply time. Rogowski and Karoly [ 7 ] and Blau and Gilleskie [ 5 ] estimate the impact of U.S. social insurance on retirement decisions for older workers.…”

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“…Tomohara and Lee [ 29 ] report that the National Child Health Insurance Plan encourages married women to reduce their working hours. Boyle and Lahey [ 6 ] use data from the U.S. Veterans Health Insurance in the mid-1990s to compare the labor market behavior of elderly male veterans and their non-retired wives before and after veterans’ health benefits according to the difference in differences method. The study demonstrates that health insurance significantly reduces the labor supply of men, whereas the labor supply of spouses increases.…”

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The Effect of China’s Health Insurance on the Labor Supply of Middle-aged and Elderly Farmers

Liu

Sun

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Social security primarily improves residents’ welfare and ensures labor market sustainability. This study presents a new view of the association between health insurance and labor supply by using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. The results reveal that the health insurance system has a remarkable effect on labor supply. The health insurance coverage tends to encourage middle-aged and elderly farmers to increase their farm labor participation rate and working time, especially for their household agricultural labor participation rate and working time. However, it also reduces the non-farm labor participation rate and working time. Different types of health insurance have diverse effects on labor supply. The new cooperative medical insurance has a stronger pull-back effect. It encourages the middle-aged and elderly farmers to leave the urban non-farm sector and transfer to rural areas to engage in their household agricultural work. The urban employee medical insurance encourages farmers to reduce self-employed labor supply and increase employed work. The supplemental health insurance tends to reduce the labor supply of farm employed and non-farm labor supply, but improve the farm labor supply. Furthermore, urban resident medical insurance and government medical insurance encourage farmers to quit directly from the labor market. In conclusion, the health insurance system is facilitating change in the labor market. Policy-makers should pay full attention to such impacts while improving the health insurance system’s design and operation in China.

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Spousal labor market effects from government health insurance: Evidence from a veterans affairs expansion

Cited by 17 publications

References 60 publications

The Spillover Effects of Spousal Chronic Diseases on Married Couples’ Labour Supply: Evidence from China

The Spillover Effects of Spousal Chronic Diseases on Married Couples’ Labour Supply: Evidence from China

The fertility effects of public pension: Evidence from the new rural pension scheme in China

The Effect of China’s Health Insurance on the Labor Supply of Middle-aged and Elderly Farmers

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