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Why the Development of Health Insurance Is Regionally Imbalanced: Evidence from China

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  • Lingyan Suo
  • Ruiyun Wanyan

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As China adopted an imbalanced development strategy to obtain rapid economic growth, it is getting more and more urgent to find out a feasible way to balanced development of social safety network. This study measures the degree of regional disparities in China’s health insurance industry and explores the rationales by a thorough examination of health insurance purchasing behavior. An empirical analysis is conducted, based on a panel data of 31 provinces from 2004 to 2014, to test the hypothesis. We find that the regional disparities would be significantly affected by the variables including age structure, education, income, availability of health resources, density of population, and substitutes.

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  • Lingyan Suo & Ruiyun Wanyan, 2017. "Why the Development of Health Insurance Is Regionally Imbalanced: Evidence from China," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(6), pages 1301-1317, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:53:y:2017:i:6:p:1301-1317
    DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2016.1190705
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