study the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), a limited coverage insurance program for rural residents in China, to …

This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical … Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and …

In 2003, after over 20 years of minimal health insurance coverage in rural areas, China launched a heavily subsidized …

This paper investigates the effects of China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on health outcomes and health care … expenditure of the elderly in rural China, using panel data from the 2005 and 2008 waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy …

In 2003, China launched a heavily subsidized voluntary health insurance program for rural residents. We combine …

The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) program was implemented in response to ‘illness-led poverty’ and poor state … of healthcare in rural China. Supported by government subsidy, more and more poor rural households are now enrolled in … and income groups. We utilize the China Health and Nutrition Survey data (CHNS) to provide prolific cross section and …

We exploit a quasi-natural experiment arising from the introduction of a health insurance program in rural China to …