Suya Zhao

The Impact of Mental Health on the Purchase for Private Health Insurance in China using Logistic Regression

SupervisorsProf Alessandra Guariglia and Nicholas Horsewood

Email: sxz867@student.bham.ac.uk

Research Overview

The aim in this research is to form an econometric logistic regression model to quantify whether individuals will purchase the private insurance in terms of mental health and other relevant factors. The dependent variable private insurance purchase is a binary metric that indicates whether individuals purchase private health insurance or not.

 

Research Interests

Health Economics

Short Biography

Suya Zhao graduated from Jiangsu University  in 2018 (  Bachelor in Economics) and graduated from the University of Birmingham with a major money  banking  and finance in 2020. She is now a PhD student in economics at the University of Birmingham.