Introduction
Method
Data
Measures
Variable | Measurement | Mean | St.Dev. |
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Outcome Variables: | |||
Physical Functioning | Continuous variable: the score of performing physical activities without limitations due to health | 72.02 | 11.63 |
Role-Physical | Continuous variable: the score of work or other daily activities without interference due to physical health problems | 93.55 | 14.46 |
Bodily Pain | Continuous variable: the score of bodily pain | 85.81 | 16.02 |
General Health | Continuous variable: the score of personal evaluated health | 57.57 | 19.10 |
Vitality | Continuous variable: the score of feeling pep and energy | 78.48 | 21.95 |
Social Functioning | Continuous variable: the score of performing normal social activities without interference due to physical or emotional problems | 22.83 | 26.74 |
Role-Emotional | Continuous variable: the score of work or other daily activities without interference due to emotional problems | 72.72 | 24.69 |
Mental Health | Continuous variable: the score of felling peaceful, happy, and calm | 74.54 | 18.11 |
Treatment Variables: | |||
New Rural Social Pension | Dummy variable: 1, receive new rural social pension in 2018; 0, do not receive new rural social pension in 2018 | 0.84 | 0.37 |
Covariates: | |||
Gender | Dummy variable: 1, male; 0, female | 0.47 | 0.50 |
Age | An individual’s age at survey date | 65.46 | 7.96 |
Marital Status | Dummy variable: 1, married; 0, otherwise | 0.81 | 0.39 |
Educational Attainment | Dummy variable: 1, do not have formal education; 0, have formal education | 0.37 | 0.50 |
Annual Household Income | Total income of all household members at survey year (log) | 7.99 | 2.95 |
Intergenerational Support | Financial support from children (log) | 2.94 | 3.80 |
Number of Children Alive | Dummy variable: 1, more than two children alive; 0, less than two children alive | 0.65 | 0.48 |
Medical Insurance | Dummy variable: 1, participate in new rural cooperative medical system; 0, do not participate in new rural cooperative medical system | 0.97 | 0.18 |
Smoking History | Dummy variable: 1, have smoke history; 0, do not have smoke history | 0.28 | 0.45 |
Alcohol Consumption History | Dummy variable: 1, drink alcohol; 0, do not drink alcohol | 0.32 | 0.47 |
Physical Activity | Dummy variable: 1, do physical activities at least 10 min every day; 0, do not do physical activities at least 10 min every day | 0.68 | 0.46 |
Region | Dummy variable: 1, eastern area; 0, middle and west area | 0.25 | 0.43 |
Analysis
Results
Descriptive statistics
2011 | 2018 | |||
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Variables | Insured Group | Control Group | Insured Group | Control Group |
Physical Functioning | 73.48*** (10.67) | 74.62 (10.44) | 70.47 (11.98) | 69.95 (14.02) |
Role-Physical | 95.35 (12.35) | 95.69 (12.50) | 92.00*** (15.41) | 90.15 (19.12) |
Bodily Pain | 89.87** (14.22) | 91.08 (13.60) | 81.24*** (16.77) | 83.33 (15.33) |
General Health | 57.34*** (17.74) | 59.83 (18.70) | 57.10** (20.29) | 58.87 (20.26) |
Vitality | 79.57* (20.98) | 81.12 (20.26) | 76.72** (23.15) | 78.88 (21.93) |
Social Functioning | 22.93 (26.61) | 24.14 (26.82) | 22.48 (26.84) | 23.00 (26.79) |
Role-Emotional | 72.28** (24.34) | 74.55 (22.83) | 72.60 (25.29) | 73.95 (25.34) |
Mental Health | 74.04*** (18.70) | 76.59 (17.03) | 74.47 (17.69) | 75.69 (17.61) |
The effect of new rural social pension on the health-related quality of life of older people
Variable | Matching | Insured | Control | p | %Bias | %Reduction Bias |
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Gender | Unmatched | 0.47 | 0.43 | 0.05 | 7.2 | |
Matched | 0.46 | 0.45 | 0.32 | 3.1 | 56.9 | |
Age | Unmatched | 61.31 | 62.39 | 0.00 | -15.2 | |
Matched | 61.38 | 61.43 | 0.84 | -0.6 | 96.0 | |
Marital status | Unmatched | 0.87 | 0.82 | 0.00 | 14.2 | |
Matched | 0.87 | 0.88 | 0.53 | -1.8 | 87.3 | |
Educational attainment | Unmatched | 0.37 | 0.40 | 0.05 | -7.2 | |
Matched | 0.37 | 0.38 | 0.50 | -2.1 | 71.3 | |
Annual household income | Unmatched | 7.53 | 7.34 | 0.22 | 5.6 | |
Matched | 7.53 | 7.51 | 0.85 | 0.7 | 86.8 | |
Intergenerational support | Unmatched | 2.11 | 2.11 | 0.92 | -3.0 | |
Matched | 2.00 | 2.00 | 0.88 | -0.1 | 97.4 | |
Number of children alive | Unmatched | 0.64 | 0.64 | 0.92 | 0.4 | |
Matched | 0.64 | 0.64 | 0.88 | -0.5 | -29.0 | |
New rural cooperative medical system | Unmatched | 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.95 | -0.2 | |
Matched | 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.95 | -0.2 | 12.0 | |
Smoking history | Unmatched | 0.41 | 0.36 | 0.01 | 9.7 | |
Matched | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.14 | 4.6 | 52.3 | |
Alcohol consumption history | Unmatched | 0.31 | 0.31 | 0.92 | 0.4 | |
Matched | 0.31 | 0.31 | 0.92 | 0.3 | 12.5 | |
Physical activity | Unmatched | 0.76 | 0.77 | 0.50 | -2.5 | |
Matched | 0.76 | 0.77 | 0.85 | -0.6 | 76.1 | |
Region | Unmatched | 0.25 | 0.30 | 0.00 | -11.2 | |
Matched | 0.25 | 0.26 | 0.62 | -1.5 | 86.5 |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | |
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Physical functioning | Role-Physical | Bodily Pain | General Health | Vitality | Social Functioning | Role-Emotional | Mental Health | |
Treated\( \times \)Time | 1.90*** (0.71) | 2.05** (0.87) | -1.80 (1.14) | -1.47 (1.54) | 0.31 (1.85) | 1.24 (2.15) | 1.63 (2.31) | 2.93** (1.47) |
Treated | -2.67*** (0.47) | -1.53*** (0.49) | -0.85 (0.88) | -1.61 (1.19) | -1.98 (1.36) | -1.53 (1.56) | -2.10 (1.79) | -3.31*** (1.09) |
Time | -2.36** (1.15) | -3.25*** (0.86) | -7.81*** (1.64) | 2.45 (1.49) | -2.88 (1.80) | -1.20 (2.03) | -3.98* (2.21) | -2.06 (1.40) |
Gender | 1.67*** (0.42) | -0.19 (0.61) | 6.03*** (0.72) | 3.04*** (0.99) | 6.67*** (1.09) | 6.25*** (1.26) | -5.99*** (1.34) | 4.62*** (0.93) |
Age | -0.24*** (0.03) | -0.23*** (0.04) | -0.14 (0.75) | -0.13** (0.06) | -0.03 (0.06) | -0.11 (0.08) | -0.14* (0.75) | -0.07 (0.06) |
Marital status | 0.44 (0.44) | 1.78*** (0.53) | -0.03 (0.74) | 1.17 (0.90) | 4.20*** (1.12) | 1.02 (1.24) | -2.53** (1.24) | 3.98*** (0.94) |
Educational attainment | -0.84** (0.33) | -1.14*** (0.39) | -1.11* (0.58) | -0.48 (0.71) | -2.25*** (0.84) | -2.12** (0.97) | -5.20*** (0.98) | -1.43** (0.71) |
Annual household income | 0.17*** (0.06) | 0.15** (0.08) | 0.01 (0.09) | 0.22 (0.14) | 0.11*** (0.13) | 0.15 (0.16) | 0.06 (0.16) | 0.01 (0.11) |
Intergenerational support | -0.03 (0.04) | 0.08 (0.05) | -0.18*** (0.07) | 0.01 (0.09) | 0.01 (0.10) | 0.07 (0.12) | 0.54*** (0.12) | 0.07 (0.09) |
Number of children alive | 0.13 (0.34) | -0.34 (0.38) | 0.44 (0.57) | -0.19 (0.72) | 1.56* (0.84) | 1.13 (0.97) | -0.13 (1.00) | 0.89 (0.70) |
NRCM | 0.74 (0.95) | -0.65 (1.26) | -1.04 (1.29) | -2.19 (2.24) | -0.61 (2.32) | -4.58* (2.61) | 0.44 (0.88) | 1.27 (1.93) |
Smoking history | -0.80* (0.45) | -0.08 (0.55) | -2.25*** (0.76) | -1.70 (1.05) | -1.59 (1.12) | -3.43** (1.35) | 0.85 (1.46) | -1.71* (0.96) |
Alcohol consumption history | 0.91** (0.36) | 1.04** (0.45) | -0.26 (0.63) | 2.47*** (0.81) | 2.12** (0.93) | 1.41 (1.06) | 0.24 (1.15) | 0.63 (0.77) |
Physical activity | -0.51 (0.33) | -0.51 (0.37) | 1.21** (0.54) | 0.46 (0.68) | 1.89** (0.82) | 2.02** (0.92) | -3.47*** (0.95) | 1.82*** (0.66) |
Region | 0.84** (0.35) | 1.02** (0.40) | 5.46*** (0.55) | 5.90*** (0.79) | 6.04*** (0.86) | 8.12*** (0.98) | 1.99* (1.05) | 6.17*** (0.74) |
Constant | 89.11*** (2.25) | 110.30*** (2.91) | 88.86*** (3.37) | 63.17*** (4.48) | 73.61*** (5.24) | 78.05*** (5.88) | 41.66*** (6.02) | 72.39*** (4.27) |
The effect of new rural social pension on the health-related quality of life of older people in different subgroups
Physical Functioning | Role-Physical | Bodily Pain | General Health | Vitality | Social Functioning | Role-Emotional | Mental Health | ||
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Enrollment time of the NRSP | \( \ge \)2 years | 1.81** (0.75) | 1.99** (0.88) | -1.82 (1.16) | -1.96 (1.56) | 0.29 (1.88) | 1.83 (2.33) | 1.03 (2.18) | 2.66* (1.50) |
\( \ge \)5 years | 1.62** (0.76) | 1.99** (0.93) | -1.81 (1.22) | -1.75 (1.64) | 0.53 (1.97) | 1.36 (2.45) | 0.51 (2.31) | 2.61* (1.58) | |
Gender | Male | 2.14 (1.38) | 4.66** (2.10) | -2.26 (2.09) | -0.65 (2.91) | -2.23 (3.33) | 0.30 (4.36) | -5.56 (4.14) | 3.70 (2.70) |
Female | 1.87** (0.86) | 1.20 (1.02) | -1.76 (1.43) | -1.54 (1.91) | 1.89 (2.36) | 2.45 (2.84) | 4.11 (2.60) | 3.29* (1.82) | |
Age | \( <\)70 | 0.84 (0.79) | 0.26 (0.93) | -1.26 (3.09) | -3.09 (1.97) | -0.78 (2.07) | 1.60 (2.79) | -3.13 (2.54) | 1.45 (1.78) |
\( \ge \)70 | 4.00** (1.61) | 6.16*** (1.80) | -3.48** (1.39) | -1.51 (2.97) | 3.03 (3.83) | 2.02 (4.65) | 11.59*** (4.21) | 7.21** (3.04) | |
Educational attainment | Non-education | 2.33** (1.11) | 3.12** (1.43) | -2.54 (1.65) | -2.31 (2.21) | -1.52 (3.01) | -1.86 (3.61) | -2.57 (3.53) | 2.89 (2.28) |
Have education | 1.62* (0.94) | 0.57 (1.19) | -0.49 (1.82) | 0.73 (2.53) | 1.46 (2.31) | 4.40 (3.04) | 3.95 (2.66) | 2.78 (1.86) | |
Marital status | Married | 1.32* (0.77) | 1.64* (0.93) | -2.97** (1.28) | -1.30 (1.76) | -0.28 (2.07) | 2.18 (2.60) | 0.22 (2.44) | 3.23** (1.62) |
Otherwise | 3.52** (1.68) | 3.62* (2.18) | 1.77 (2.40) | -2.39 (3.41) | 2.28 (4.24) | -2.20 (5.24) | 4.71 (4.71) | 2.98 (3.34) | |
Annual household income | \( <\)50% | 2.24** (1.12) | 3.12** (1.43) | -2.54 (1.65) | -2.31 (2.21) | -0.54 (2.70) | 5.07 (3.23) | 0.49 (3.18) | -0.19 (2.09) |
\( \ge \)50% | 1.12 (1.05) | 0.57 (1.19) | -0.49 (1.82) | 0.73 (2.53) | 0.06 (2.94) | -2.11 (3.65) | 2.70 (3.46) | 6.31*** (2.27) | |
Region | Easter Area | 0.67 (1.32) | 0.87 (1.65) | -1.53 (1.79) | 1.53 (3.19) | 1.58 (3.10) | 4.09 (4.06) | -2.34 (4.09) | 0.55 (2.68) |
Middle and West Area | 2.28*** (0.85) | 2.52** (1.03) | -1.88 (1.45) | -2.70 (1.72) | -0.20 (2.32) | -0.44 (2.79) | 2.64 (2.53) | 3.83** (1.76) |