第172期嶽麓經貿學術論壇

講座題目：Unawareness of Unhealthiness, Information Provision, and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly

（語言：中英文）

主講人：黃炜博士

新加坡國立大學校聘助理教授。之前，黃博士是國家經濟研究局（NBER）博士後研究員。黃博士于二零一六年獲得哈佛大學經濟學博士學位，于二零一一年獲得北京大學國家發展學院經濟學碩士學位，于二零零八年獲得北京大學物理學院物理學學士學位。他的研究領域是公共經濟學，勞動經濟學和衛生經濟學。他的研究興趣在健康，教育，種族和中國等領域。他的研究成果已發表在Review of Economic and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Nature, Journal of Economic Perspectives等學術刊物上。同時，他是Economics of  Transition雜志的聯合主編，德國勞動經濟研究所（IZA）研究員，江西财經大學海外講座教授。

講座時間：2019年9月18日（周三）下午2:00-3:30pm

講座地點：77779193永利北校區行政樓401

主持人：鄧衛廣 助理教授

3044永利集团國際貿易系

Abstract

People may be unaware of their unhealthiness thus make sub-optimal decisions in insurance participation. Using national representative samples of the elderly in the US and China, we find that unawareness of unhealthiness is a salient issue among the seniors in both countries, especially those with lower education and poorer health, and is significantly associated with less insurance participation. More importantly, sound evidence from regression discontinuity design (RDD) shows that updated health information provision through physical examination leads to higher insurance participation among those who are unaware of unhealthiness; but no significant evidence suggests that health insurance provision improves individual awareness of health problems. These findings highlight an important role of health information in insurance participation and help to explain the phenomena such as insufficient participation among poor people and advantageous selection in health insurance.

主要發表記錄：

1.      Edward Glaeser, Huang, Wei, Yueran Ma and Andrei Shleifer (2017), "A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1, 31, 93-116

2.      Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei and Yaohui Zhao (2016), "One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-made Twins." Review of Economics and Statistics, 98, 3, 467-476

3.      Richard Freeman and Huang, Wei (2015), "Collaborating with People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US," Journal of Labor Economics, 33, S1, S289-S318

4.      Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei, Geert Ridder, John Strauss and Yaohui Zhao (2013), "Health, Height, Height Shrinkage, and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5, 2, 86-121