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This study mainly explores the impact of the social pension system on the health of human capital, and further explores its impact mechanism.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>On the basis of the data from China Family Panel Studies from 2012 to 2018, this article uses the fixed effect model and the mediation effect model to empirically study the influence of the social pension scheme on the health of human capital and further explore its influence mechanism.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study shows that the social pension scheme can significantly improve the physical and mental health of laborers, especially for low-income and agricultural groups. The implementation of the social pension scheme contributes to increasing medical services and reducing the labor supply for the benefit of human health capital. Therefore, the government should continue to expand the coverage of the social pension scheme and comprehensively improve the importance of human health capital on economic growth.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>Medical costs and labor supply play a mediating effect in the relationship between social pension and rural labors' health status, which indicates that medical costs and labor supply level are still important factors affecting the health status of rural labor. There are essential factors affecting the health status of the rural labor force, and their role should be given more consideration in the process of system design and improvement.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The existing studies have more frequently studied the effect of the implementation of social pension schemes from the perspective of economic performance, but this paper evaluates the policy effect of social pension schemes based on the perspective of health human capital, which enriches research on health performance in related fields.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/k-10-2022-1413","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,30]],"date-time":"2022-12-30T20:52:00Z","timestamp":1672433520000},"page":"1395-1410","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["The impact of social pension scheme on the quality of labor supply: empirical evidence based on health human capital"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"53","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1827-0060","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shulin","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7105-0150","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zefeng","family":"Tong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Cheng","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2590-6445","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuoqi","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,2]]},"reference":[{"issue":"12","key":"key2024031301263053400_ref001","first-page":"2037","article-title":"A critical appraisal of propensity-score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003","volume":"27","year":"2010","journal-title":"Statistics in Medicine"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2024031301263053400_ref002","first-page":"126","article-title":"Social position and health in old age: the relevance of different indicators of social position","volume":"31","year":"2002","journal-title":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2024031301263053400_ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"119","DOI":"10.1186\/s12939-015-0224-5","article-title":"The old age health security in rural China: where to go?","volume":"14","year":"2015","journal-title":"International Journal for Equity in Health"},{"issue":"11","key":"key2024031301263053400_ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1238","DOI":"10.1093\/aje\/kwq283","article-title":"Reconsidering the role of social disadvantage in physical and mental health: stressful life events, health behaviors, race, and depression","volume":"172","year":"2010","journal-title":"American Journal of Epidemiology"},{"key":"key2024031301263053400_ref005","first-page":"250","article-title":"Individual income, mortality and healthcare resource use in patients with chronic heart failure living in a universal healthcare system: a population-based study in Catalonia, Spain","volume":"277","year":"2018","journal-title":"International Journal of Cardiology"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2024031301263053400_ref006","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"31","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-6419.2007.00527.x","article-title":"Some practical guidance for the implementation of propensity score matching","volume":"22","year":"2008","journal-title":"Journal of Economic Surveys"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2024031301263053400_ref007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3","DOI":"10.1111\/deve.12297","article-title":"Pension incentives and retirement planning in rural China: evidence for the new rural pension scheme","volume":"60","year":"2022","journal-title":"Developing Economies"},{"key":"key2024031301263053400_ref008","first-page":"411","article-title":"Does money relieve depression? 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