讲座时间：2022年6月17日 14：00-15：30

讲座地点: 腾讯会议 603 792 979

主讲人：Yi Zhang

讲座题目：The effect of adult children’s education on parental healthcare utilization: Evidence from China

讲座简介：This study investigates the effect of adult children’s education on parental healthcare utilization in China. We exploit an arguably exogenous change in children’s education, induced by the Compulsory Education Law CEL) reform around 1986.  We find adult children’s education reduces parents’ outpatient care utilization, but increases the inpatient care utilization, self-treatment use, and dental care. Parents’ switching to more costly health service could be explained in part by their increasing awareness of chronic diseases with the knowledge transfer from their better educated children. Moreover, they receive more monetary transfers from children and have more economic resources to afford more (costly) health service, as their children are better educated.  The findings highlight the uncovered important role of children’s education on the elderly’s healthcare consumption, especially through the channels of knowledge spillover and improved budget.

主讲人介绍：Yi Zhang is an Assistant Professoer at the China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research (CHLR), Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE). She received her Ph.D. in Economics in 2020 from Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her research areas lie in the field of Health Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics in general. Her current research includes evaluating labor market effects of disability benefit reforms in the Netherlands and quantifying intergenerational health effects of human capital. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Health Economics, Empirical Economics.