Health care quality, economic inequality, and precautionary saving
利用意大利全民公共医疗系统在各地区间的质量差异，研究发现医疗质量较低的地区收入与健康不平等更严重，居民预防性储蓄更高，对医疗体系设计有政策启示。
We argue that health care quality has an important impact on economic inequality and on saving behavior. We exploit district-wide variability in health care quality provided by the Italian universal public health system to identify the effect of quality on income inequality, health inequality and precautionary saving. We find that in lower quality districts there is greater income and health dispersion and higher precautionary saving. The analysis carries important insights for the ongoing debate about the validity of the life-cycle model and interesting policy implications for the design of health care systems.