This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health … and Nutrition Survey we find that this reform increases the rate of health insurance coverage significantly among workers … in Non-State Owned Enterprises. The double difference (DD) estimations show that the reform also leads to better health …

insurance. Across a range of health measures, we estimate no significant impacts on health. …

Among health care systems with both public and private elements (such as in the US and Germany), an important question … is whether the type of health insurance exerts an impact on workers' careers. We exploit the unique German case of a two …-tier health care system to analyze whether opting out of public statutory health insurance and into private health insurance …

Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated … with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total … household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household …