剩余风险与商业医疗保险中的选择效应研究
Residual Risk and Selection Effect in Commercial Health Insurance
杨攀续 1钟仁耀1
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摘要
实现多层次医疗保障的有序衔接需要分析各项目间的互补关系.本文构建剩余风险指标,基于2018年中国健康与养老追踪调查数据,描述剩余风险对商业医疗保险中的选择效应的影响,实证分析选择效应的类型并解释其形成机制.剩余风险衡量个体选择性参保时面临的健康风险,即剔除多层次医疗保障可能降低的风险后剩余的健康风险.研究发现,商业医疗保险市场中的主要选择效应为正向选择,剩余风险较高者参保概率仅为较低者的60％,即多层次医疗保障水平较低且健康风险较高的个体反而参保概率较低.考虑多层次医疗保障与商业医疗保险的互补关系将使模型对参保行为的解释效力提升18％.通过控制遗漏变量、改变估计方法、替换剩余风险衡量指标和使用工具变量的方式确认了实证结果的稳健性.正向选择在年龄和家庭保障能力方面存在异质性,年龄较低、家庭储蓄水平和家庭经济水平较高的个体正向选择参保的概率较高.机制分析发现,风险厌恶可以解释正向选择现象,即风险厌恶程度较高者积极降低自身剩余风险且主动参加商业医疗保险使得市场中呈现"保险-剩余风险"的负相关关系.
Abstract
To realize the orderly connection of multi-level medical security system,it is necessary to analyze the complementary relationship among various items.The residual risk index is constructed to describe the influence of the residual risk on the selec-tion effect in commercial health insurance(CHI).This paper uses the 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey data to study what type of selection effect exists in the market and explain its generation mechanism.A"residual risk"refers to the actual risk faced by people when they selectively participate in CHI,eliminating the individual health risks reduced by the medical security system.This paper finds that the main selection effect in the CHI market is advantageous selection,and the prob-ability of participating in CHI for those with higher residual risk is only 60％of that for those with lower residual risk.That is,in-dividuals with lower medical security level and higher health risk have a lower probability of participating in CHI.Considering the complementary relationship between basic medical insurance and CHI will increase the explanatory power of the model for the behavior of participating in CHI by 18％.The robustness of the empirical results is confirmed by controlling for omitted variables,changing the estimation method,replacing the residual risk measures and using instrumental variables.The advantageous selection effect is heterogeneous with respect to age and family security ability.Individuals with a lower age,a higher level of household sav-ings,and a higher level of household wealth have a higher probability of participating in CHI when the residual risk is low.The mechanism analysis finds that risk aversion can explain the advantageous selection phenomenon.Those with higher risk aversion actively reduce their own residual risk and actively participate in CHI,which leads to a negative correlation between CHI and residual risk in the market.
关键词
商业医疗保险/正向选择/逆向选择/风险厌恶Key words
commercial health insurance/advantageous selection/adverse selection/risk aversion引用本文复制引用
基金项目
国家社会科学基金重点项目(21AZD076)
出版年
2024
NETL
NSTL
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