講座主題：Unawareness ofUnhealthiness, Information Provision, and Health Insurance Participation amongthe Elderly

主講嘉賓：黃炜（新加坡國立大學校長特聘助理教授）

講座時間：2019年3月29日（周五），16:00-17:30

講座地點：沙河校區 主教401

嘉賓簡介：黃炜博士是新加坡國立大學校長特聘助理教授。之前，黃博士是國家經濟研究局（NBER）博士後研究員。黃博士于二零一六年獲得哈佛大學經濟學博士學位，于二零一一年獲得北京大學國家發展學院經濟學碩士學位，于二零零八年獲得北京大學物理學院物理學學士學位。他的研究領域是公共經濟學，勞動經濟學和衛生經濟學。他的研究興趣在健康，教育，種族和中國等領域。他的研究成果已發表在Review of Economic and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics,American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Nature, Journal of EconomicPerspectives 等學術刊物上。2018年起，他擔任Economicsof Transition的聯合主編。

内容摘要：People may be unaware oftheir unhealthiness and thus make suboptimal decisions in insuranceparticipation. Using national representative samples of the elderly in US andChina, we find that the unawareness of unhealthiness is significantlyassociated with lower socio-economic status, poorer health, and less insuranceparticipation. We further find that accurate health information providedthrough physical examinations induces relatively higher participationafterwards suggesting information as an important mechanism. These findingscontribute a new explanation for the insufficient participation among poorpeople and advantageous selection in health insurance.