时间：2016年5月30日下午14:00-16:00

地点：国发院小教室

主持人：刘国恩

主讲人： 潘杰（四川大学）；钟海（中央财经大学）

Topic 1: Cherry picking: private hospital entry and unprofitable care provision by public hospitals in china

Abstract: We develop a hospital model with two kinds of care and maximizing revenues under regulated prices in the context of China health care system. Basing on the model, we analyze the unprofitable care provision behavior by public hospitals with three scenarios: current health system, new private hospital entry, and partly privatization of public hospital. We conclude that with private hospital entry, the profitable care quality could be improved, while unprofitable care would be weakened or shrunk or even totally cut off. Previous subsides to public hospital would not be adequate to keep the same amount of unprofitable care as before, and the situation for privatization would be worse compared with new private entrant. Our study provides implications for future health care reform, especially public hospital reform in China.

Speaker: Dr. Jay Pan is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Economics at the West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, and Research Fellow of West China Research Center for Rural Health Development. He holds a PhD in Economics, and received post-doctoral training in Epidemiology and Health Statistics from Sichuan University in 2013. His research focuses on the study of health system evaluation and the spatial allocation of health care resources. His works have been funded, among others, by the National Natural Science foundation (China), the National Health and Family Planning Commission (China), and the China Medical Board (US). He is the author of more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles. The journals include Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine, China Economic Review, Social Indicators Research, Health Policy & Planning, Geospatial Health, and Journal of Asian Public Policy. His most recent book is Government Intervention and Market Mechanism: Empirical Studies on Health Care System Reform in China (2014).

Top 2: The impacts of adult child migration on the health of elderly parents left behind in China

 

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the impacts of adult child migration on the health of elderly parents left behind in China. To control the potential endogeneity problem of migration, we use a system GMM estimator to estimate a dynamic panel data model. We have three key findings. First, as a whole, adult child migration has positive effects on the physical health, and negative effects on the mental health of the elderly parents left behind. Secondly, the patterns of children’s migration matter to the health of parents. A higher percentage of children or more children migrated out have stronger effects on the health of elderly parents left behind. Finally, while we do not find that the effects are systematically different between rural and urban areas and between genders, we find heterogeneous effects across age groups.

 

Speaker：Hai Zhong currently is a professor at Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing. He obtained his PhD in Economics from McMaster University, Canada, in 2007. His research and teaching fields include Health Economics, Labor and Demographic Economics, Public Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics. Zhong’s research appears in the Journal of Health economics, Health economics, Economica, European Journal of Health Economics, Applied Economics, China Economic Review and other peer reviewed journals.