【本期主题】Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical
This paper examines the role of social learning in the enrollment decision of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in rural China by estimating a static game of incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that social learning in the enrollment decision is large and significant. Furthermore, we use time and spatial proximity among household heads to ascertain that the mechanism of social network effect in the NCMS enrollment is indeed mainly via social learning. Our findings indicate that a 10-percentage-point increase in the enrollment rate of other households in the same village increases one’s own take-up probability by 5-percentage-point. We also find that the importance of social learning decreases significantly with the development of alternative information channels. Finally, evidence suggests that healthier, wealthier, relatively well-educated older male household heads with Han nationality tend to be opinion leaders.
【报告人】刘宏 中央财经大学
【时 间】12月26日（周三） 中午12:00
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报告人简介：
刘宏博士2007年毕业于纽约州立大学石溪分校，获经济学博士学位。目前担任中央财经大学中国经济与管理研究院副教授。刘宏副教授的研究领域包括卫生经济学、劳动经济学、应用微观，有多篇英文论文发表在国际一流期刊上，包括The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 、Economics and Human Biology、China Economic Review等。
