When Bureaucrats and Citizens Have Equal Access to Health Care

Abstract:. This project aims to examine whether privileged access to medical care by cadres affects public spending on medical in China. The rolling out of the civil servants’ medical care reform during the early 2000s in China and the political cycle turnover makes it possible to have an instrumented-DID design and this project plans to combine household medical care utilization the survey , city government spending data and city governments’ politician turnover data to provide an empirical answer.