Health Care Reform and Farm Women's Off-Farm Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Taiwan

Autor:	Pei-An Liao, J. Edward Taylor
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	agricultural households difference-in-differences farm wives health care insurance labor force participation off-farm taiwan Agriculture
Zdroj:	Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol 35, Iss 2, Pp 281-298 (2010)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1068-5502 2327-8285
DOI:	10.22004/ag.econ.93218
Popis:	Do non-wage fringe benefits affect women's off-farm work decisions? We test the impact of the 1995 introduction of universal National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan on off-farm labor force participation (LFP) among farm wives. Our results, based on a difference-in- differences approach, indicate that employment-delinked NHI reduced farm wives' off-farm LFP by 9.6 to 13.6 percentage points. The larger impact was for wives from small farm households. The health insurance reform had a larger negative impact on overall LFP among married women in agricultural households than in nonagricultural households.
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