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Crowding-Out or Crowding-In: Government Health Investment and Household Consumption
This paper explores the relationship of government health investment and household consumption by applying a panel fixed effects model and Sobel-Goodman mediation tests to inland Chinese provinces. The empirical results highlight that government health investment has a crowding-in effect and can thu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8226022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178935 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.706937 |
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author | Cheng, Hao Zhi, Yu-Peng Deng, Zi-Wei Gao, Qing Jiang, Rui |
author_facet | Cheng, Hao Zhi, Yu-Peng Deng, Zi-Wei Gao, Qing Jiang, Rui |
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description | This paper explores the relationship of government health investment and household consumption by applying a panel fixed effects model and Sobel-Goodman mediation tests to inland Chinese provinces. The empirical results highlight that government health investment has a crowding-in effect and can thus promote household consumption. Furthermore, the promotion effect on non-medical health consumption is greater than that on medical health consumption. The promotion effect of government health investment on rural household consumption is higher than that on urban household consumption, and the promotion effect on household consumption for northern provinces is higher than that in southern provinces. This heterogeneous effect is closely related to the difference between urban and rural development; and the economic levels of the northern and South regions. The mediation tests found that government health investment mainly promotes regional economic growth, and then increases household consumption. In the economic and social development process, the government should implement more effective medical and health care measures to increase social medical and health investment to improve the consumption level of households. |
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spelling | pubmed-82260222021-06-26 Crowding-Out or Crowding-In: Government Health Investment and Household Consumption Cheng, Hao Zhi, Yu-Peng Deng, Zi-Wei Gao, Qing Jiang, Rui Front Public Health Public Health This paper explores the relationship of government health investment and household consumption by applying a panel fixed effects model and Sobel-Goodman mediation tests to inland Chinese provinces. The empirical results highlight that government health investment has a crowding-in effect and can thus promote household consumption. Furthermore, the promotion effect on non-medical health consumption is greater than that on medical health consumption. The promotion effect of government health investment on rural household consumption is higher than that on urban household consumption, and the promotion effect on household consumption for northern provinces is higher than that in southern provinces. This heterogeneous effect is closely related to the difference between urban and rural development; and the economic levels of the northern and South regions. The mediation tests found that government health investment mainly promotes regional economic growth, and then increases household consumption. In the economic and social development process, the government should implement more effective medical and health care measures to increase social medical and health investment to improve the consumption level of households. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8226022/ /pubmed/34178935 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.706937 Text en Copyright © 2021 Cheng, Zhi, Deng, Gao and Jiang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Cheng, Hao Zhi, Yu-Peng Deng, Zi-Wei Gao, Qing Jiang, Rui Crowding-Out or Crowding-In: Government Health Investment and Household Consumption |
title | Crowding-Out or Crowding-In: Government Health Investment and Household Consumption |
title_full | Crowding-Out or Crowding-In: Government Health Investment and Household Consumption |
title_fullStr | Crowding-Out or Crowding-In: Government Health Investment and Household Consumption |
title_full_unstemmed | Crowding-Out or Crowding-In: Government Health Investment and Household Consumption |
title_short | Crowding-Out or Crowding-In: Government Health Investment and Household Consumption |
title_sort | crowding-out or crowding-in: government health investment and household consumption |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8226022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178935 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.706937 |
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