School of Insurance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China.
School of Finance and Economics, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Front Public Health. 2021 Sep 28;9:764364. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.764364. eCollection 2021.
This paper employs data from the 2016 and 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to study the impact of participation in Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI) on children's educational outcomes by using the logit model, double selection Lasso model, and propensity score matching. It is found that participating in URRBMI has no significant effect on children's Chinese performance, but has a significant negative effect on children's mathematics performance. The negative effect is more obvious for children who participating in the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS). The paper also studies the channel effects of participation in URRBMI on children's educational outcomes trough two different ways. It is noticed that both channel effects are not significant, that is, participation in URRBMI neither improves children's health nor changes household education expenditures.
本文利用 2016 年和 2018 年中国家庭追踪调查(CFPS)的数据,采用 Logit 模型、双重选择 Lasso 模型和倾向得分匹配法,研究了参加城乡居民基本医疗保险(URRBMI)对儿童教育成果的影响。研究发现,参加 URRBMI 对儿童的语文成绩没有显著影响,但对数学成绩有显著的负面影响。对于参加新型农村合作医疗制度(NCMS)的儿童,这种负面影响更为明显。本文还通过两种不同的方式研究了参加 URRBMI 对儿童教育成果的渠道效应。研究发现,这两种渠道效应都不显著,即参加 URRBMI 既不能改善儿童的健康状况,也不能改变家庭的教育支出。