Threshold Effect of the Government Intervention in the Relationship Between Business Cycle and Population Health: Evidence From China.

ABSTRACT: China is an emerging country, and government intervention is always considered as an important part of the solutions when people facing challenges in China. Under the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic and the global economic downturn, the Chinese government quickly brought the epidemic under control and restored the positive economic growth through strong intervention. Based on the panel data of provincial level in China and the government intervention as the threshold variable, this paper empirically analyzed the non-linear effect of business cycle on population health by using the panel threshold regression model. The empirical results show that the impact of the business cycle on population health is significantly negative, and government intervention has a sing

SUBMITTER: Chai KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8216553 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature