The relationship between economic fluctuations and national healthy in Taiwan.

• Main Authors: Chih-Cheng Chu, 朱志正
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/v8jfhy

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 產業經濟研究所 === 94 === Taiwan has been through repeatedly more than three decades economical vigorous development, causes the national healthy large improvement. At present, the mortality is gradually becoming stable, however there are still some existed fluctuations. We suspect that this phenomenon is closely related to the macroeconomic conditions. Motivated by this reason, we investigate the relationship between the economic fluctuation and the health of the people. In this paper, we establish the panel data of the county’s mortality and county’s unemployment rate for the period 1979-2004, and then we use the fixed effect model to control for heterogeneity of different counties. The results show that under the control of year effects and county characteristic variables, the unemployment rate of lag one year is negatively and statistically significantly correlated with accident, suicide, and lung fatalities. Moreover, if the recessions are lasting for a long time, some chronic mortality would be increased when the average rate of joblessness at lags of two to six years increased.