Background In China, public medical insurance has expanded rapidly in the past 20 years. Many studies have discussed …. This study focuses on the efect of medical insurance on promoting family fnancial support in China. Method Fifty …-fve thousand sixty-two individual samples were obtained from four waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study …

individual fixed effects. I find that life satisfaction of temporary workers decreases by around 0.5 (10-point scale) when EPLP …

). The reform changed the total amount of benefits as well as the duration of pay. By construction of the reform, the change … reform also introduced incentives for paternal leave taking. Income effects, fathers' involvement, and social norms … constitute potential channels through which the reform affects well-being. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find …

rates. However, little is known about the reforms' effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study … applies difference-in-difference estimations and finds a decrease in life satisfaction after the reforms that is more … pronounced for male unemployed in west Germany. The effect is driven by income and income satisfaction, but not by the …