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A tale of two markets—would housing appreciation prompt insurance participation? Evidence from China’s urban elderly

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  • Han, Jiajun

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This paper investigates how housing wealth affects urban elderly’s commercial health insurance participation by using the discontinuity along housing size formed by China’s housing policies. The empirical results reveal a positive effect of housing wealth on urbanites’ enrolment in commercial health insurance, with elderly previously or currently working in non-public sectors, only having one child, and not having a son exhibiting higher responsiveness to unexpected gains in housing wealth. Moreover, the bumper housing wealth-induced insurance purchasing only takes effect for urban elderly having full homeownership, whereas those with partial ownership and tenants hardly react to housing policies.

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  • Han, Jiajun, 2024. "A tale of two markets—would housing appreciation prompt insurance participation? Evidence from China’s urban elderly," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:asieco:v:95:y:2024:i:c:s1049007824001337
    DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101838
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    Keywords

    Housing wealth; Commercial health insurance; China’s elderly; Regression discontinuity;
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    JEL classification:

    • D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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