Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232845 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14093
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low rates of participation in urban health insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban migrants. Among workers without a contract, the information intervention has a strong positive effect on participation in health insurance and, among younger age groups, in pension programs. Migrants are responsive to price: in cities where the premia are low relative to earnings, information induces health insurance participation, while declines are observed in cities with high relative premia.
Subjects: 
migration
social insurance
information
randomised controlled trial
JEL: 
H53
H55
J46
J61
O15
O17
O53
P35
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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