New Rural Social Pension Insurance, Income and the Happiness of Rural Residents

The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme

The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China’s New Rural Pension Scheme This paper investigates the impact of pension income on living arrangements of the elderly. Taking advantage of a unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly address the endogeneity of pension st...

Analysis of Income Difference among Rural Residents in China

This paper studies and analyzes the income difference among Chinese rural residents from 1997 to 2008 through absolute difference indices and relative difference indices. It comes to the conclusion that the absolute income difference among rural residents in China has been increasing year by year, while the relative difference remains around the average level and tends to increase in fluctuatio...

The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China’s New Rural Pension Scheme

The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China’s New Rural Pension Scheme* This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China’s New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy experiment, we address the endogeneity of pension income by applying...

Insurance and Rural Welfare

Studying the Social Status and Health Concerning Rural Elderly Using the Plan for Rural Empowering

Objectives: Elderliness is a biological process that is experienced by all living creatures, among them are human beings. Elderly population in the country is increasing, and in order to face this phenomena understanding the existing status of the country>s elderly is necessary. Methods & Materials: This research has been done within the framework of the objectives of the plan to empower the...