Chinese Hukou Policy and Rural-to-Urban Migrants’ Health: Evidence from Matching Methods
| Autor: | Christopher Rick, Marta Bengoa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Inequality Internal migration 030503 health policy & services media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Social benefits Exact matching Health outcomes 03 medical and health sciences 0502 economics and business Propensity score matching Economics Demographic economics 050207 economics 0305 other medical science China Matching methods media_common |
| Zdroj: | Eastern Economic Journal. 46:224-259 |
| ISSN: | 1939-4632 0094-5056 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41302-019-00158-z |
| Popis: | Internal migration and the provision of social benefits in China are restricted by the institutional policy, commonly called hukou. Hukou status is mainly determined by place of origin. It creates a two-tier system that exacerbates inequality across Chinese households—rural versus urban hukou. We apply coarsened exact matching methods and propensity score models to estimate the impact of obtaining an urban hukou on rural-to-urban migrants’ health outcomes. Our results indicate that migrants with urban hukou maintain lower levels of blood pressure and are less likely to develop hypertension or nutritional conditions compared to rural hukou migrants. We do not find significant results on self-rated health. Our findings show that, in the short-medium term, there are differences in health that are prevalent for migrants with different hukous. |
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