Chou, Shin-Yi; Liu, Jin-Tan; Hammitt, James - In: Review of Economics of the Household 4 (2006) 4, pp. 395-421
By reducing risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenses, comprehensive social health insurance may reduce households’ motivation to engage in precautionary behaviors such as saving, procurement of private insurance, and spousal labor-force participation. We use the natural experiment provided...