The Use of Propensity Score Matching to Evaluate Health Effect on China Labor Force Participation

Author

Fan Min ; Fan Zhujun

Author_Institution

Financial Eng. Center, South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The aim of the study is to determine the influence of health status on labor force supply in Chinese people aged over 20. We estimate the average treatment effect on labor force participation of health status using the Chinese Health and Family Life Survey (CHFLS) data of 3821 individuals. A concern when estimating the effect of health on labor supply is that health (especially self assessed health) might be endogenous, and in particular that people might use poor health to justify non- participation. This would result in the effect of health being overestimated if health was treated as exogenous. Considering covariate endogeneity and sample selection bias, we use propensity score matching to analyze the average treatment effect of health status on labor force participation. The result shows that health status significantly affects the individual labor force participation rate of China.

Keywords

health care; labour resources; statistical analysis; China labor force participation; average treatment effect; covariate endogeneity; health effect; health status; labor force supply; propensity score matching; sample selection bias; Aging; Econometrics; Economic forecasting; Force measurement; Labor resources; Life estimation; Mathematics; Particle measurements; Public policy; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.2047

Filename

4680236