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Effects of government cash subsidies on health risk behaviors of the rural elderly: Evidence from social pension expansions in China
- Source :
- Tobacco Induced Diseases, Tobacco Induced Diseases, Vol 19, Iss March, Pp 1-9 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- European Publishing on behalf of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases (ISPTID), 2021.
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Abstract
- Introduction There is relatively little research on the impact of government cash subsidies on health risk behaviors of the elderly in China. We thus analyzed the effect of pension subsidies on the smoking and drinking behaviors of rural elderly using a pension scheme introduced in rural China in 2009. Methods Based on panel data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) in 2008 and 2011, a Difference-in-Differences (DID) method was applied to comprehensively analyze the impact of the new agricultural insurance on the health risk behaviors of the rural elderly. In order to solve possible sample selection biases, the Propensity Score Matching with Difference-in-Differences (PSM-DID) approach was used. Results We found that the implementation of the government cash subsidies clearly promoted smoking rather than drinking behavior among rural older adults. Specifically, the government cash subsidies facilitated smokers to smoke an additional 2.9 cigarettes/day, and the impact of government cash subsidies on the average cigarettes/day among smokers was more pronounced among the male elderly, lower age elderly, higher income elderly, and elderly with intact instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Conclusions In order to reduce the negative externalities of old-age subsidies, the government should place some restrictions on the use of cash subsidies for tobacco purchase by the elderly.
- Subjects :
- rural elderly
China
Health (social science)
Activities of daily living
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Medicine (miscellaneous)
government cash subsidies
Social pension
lcsh:RC254-282
03 medical and health sciences
0502 economics and business
050207 economics
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lcsh:RC705-779
Government
Pension
030503 health policy & services
05 social sciences
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Subsidy
lcsh:Diseases of the respiratory system
social sciences
health risk behaviors
lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
humanities
Cash
Propensity score matching
Demographic economics
Business
0305 other medical science
Panel data
Research Paper
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16179625 and 20707266
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Tobacco Induced Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0aeb9d36869b1feecd6661e98b0fd474