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

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

关键词: agricultural households;    difference-in-differences;    farm wives;    health care;    insurance;    labor force participation;    off-farm;    taiwan;   

DOI  :  10.22004/ag.econ.93218

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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