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. 2021 Sep 28:9:764364.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.764364. eCollection 2021.

Empirical Study on the Impact of Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Children's Educational Outcomes

Hua Chen  1 , Gandan Xiao  1 , Jianing Xing  1 , Qing Zhou  2
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Empirical Study on the Impact of Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Children's Educational Outcomes

Hua Chen et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

This paper employs data from the 2016 and 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to study the impact of participation in Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI) on children's educational outcomes by using the logit model, double selection Lasso model, and propensity score matching. It is found that participating in URRBMI has no significant effect on children's Chinese performance, but has a significant negative effect on children's mathematics performance. The negative effect is more obvious for children who participating in the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS). The paper also studies the channel effects of participation in URRBMI on children's educational outcomes trough two different ways. It is noticed that both channel effects are not significant, that is, participation in URRBMI neither improves children's health nor changes household education expenditures.

Keywords: basic medical insurance; channel effect; double selection lasso; educational outcome; propensity score matching.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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