Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2097108
Immigrants’ health education and economic behaviours: saving rates, social medical insurance and house purchase
Jialu You
Jinhua Zhang
Abstract
Healthy China is a crucial policy for advancing global health, addressing
inequality between rural and urban health education, and helping the
domestic markets recover after the COVID-19 outbreak. This study combines
life cycle mechanisms and safety beliefs to evaluate the long-lasting
values of health education. We employed data from the China
Migration Dynamic Surveys to examine the economic behaviours of
720,900 immigrants using a robust empirical approach combining an
Extended Regression Model (E.R.M.), Average Treatment Effects (A.T.E.),
and heterogeneous treatment effects. We find that health education
increases participation in social medical insurance and the likelihood of
purchasing a house. In contrast, the relationship between health education
and saving rates is non-linear effects. Empirically robust heterogeneous
treatment effects account for heterogeneity in the previous and
the younger generations, as well as urban and rural citizens’ long-run
effects of health education. This study’s findings suggest that health
education stimulates immigrants’ consumption behaviours; however,
extra health education is not desirable. Rural-urban citizenship acquisition
bias is found to significantly affect health education.
Keywords
health education; social medical insurance; house purchasing; saving rates; healthy China policy
Hrčak ID:
304230
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Publication date:
31.3.2023.
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