| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w12686 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 12686 |
| Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China | |
| Li Gan; Lixin Colin Xu; Yang Yao | |
| 发表日期 | 2006-11-09 |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Using a sample of households in 48 Chinese villages for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies the dynamic effects of major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a shock-hit household on average falls short of its normal income trajectory by 11.8% and its recovery would take 19 years. Based on the premise that shock-hit families impose negative externalities on richer families by borrowing from them, our political economy model predicts that the outcome of village elections would differ from that of a standard median voter model in that the elected village leaders tend to adopt pro-poor policies. Our empirical study finds that villages are more likely to establish a healthcare plan after the election is introduced. In addition, village elections reduce the probability of a household to borrow by 16.7% when one of its working adults is seriously sick. As a result, they reduce more than half of the negative effect of a health shock on household income. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12686 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570348 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li Gan,Lixin Colin Xu,Yang Yao. Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China. 2006. |
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