报告题目：Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure
演讲人：赵忠
演讲时间：2013年5月9日（星期四）下午15:00—17:00
演讲地点：三教三阶下
邀请部门：商学院经济学系
主持人：沈凌副教授

Abstract:
In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We find that this program has significantly increased the utilization of formal medical services. This result is robust to various specifications and multiple estimation strategies. However, there is no evidence that it has reduced out-of-pocket expenditure and some evidence suggesting that it has increased the total health care expenditure. We also find that this program has improved medical care utilization more for the elderly, for the low- and middle-income families, and for the residents in the relatively poor western region.

演讲人简介：

        赵忠，中国人民大学劳动人事学院经济学教授，博士生导师，中国人民大学第十一届学术委员会委员。他于1991年毕业于中国人民大学国际经济系，获经济学学士学位，2002年获美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学(The Johns Hopkins University)经济学博士学位。

        加入人民大学前，赵忠是德国劳动研究所(波恩)(IZA, Bonn)的高级研究员(Senior Research Associate)。他还曾在云南省财政厅和北京大学工作过，并在美国南加州大学、荷兰丁伯根研究所、英国诺丁汉大学和美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学做过访问研究。

        赵忠的研究兴趣包括劳动经济学、公共政策与社会项目评估、应用微观计量经济学、卫生经济学和中国经济。他的研究成果发表在《经济研究》、《经济学季刊》、《管理世界》、《世界经济》、Review of Economics and Statistics、Journal of Population Economics、Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A)、Review of Income and Wealth和Economics Letters等国内外期刊上。他曾获得教育部“新世纪优秀人才支持计划”、澳大利亚堪培拉大学杰出访问学者和北京大学第九届人文社会科学研究优秀成果一等奖等项荣誉。