Factors Affecting Household Medical and Traveling Expenditure in Taiwan ─ Application of Family Life Cycle Theory

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 應用經濟學系所 === 99 === Family life in Taiwan society has gone through certain qualitative change both after the enforcement of National Insurance Program and Saturday-as-weekend policy. Medical care and leisure life thus become two crucial aspects of the sustainable quality of family l...

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Main Authors: Yu-Chen Chou, 周宇溱
Other Authors: 黃炳文
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96815254594000184990
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Summary:碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 應用經濟學系所 === 99 === Family life in Taiwan society has gone through certain qualitative change both after the enforcement of National Insurance Program and Saturday-as-weekend policy. Medical care and leisure life thus become two crucial aspects of the sustainable quality of family life. Under the framework of family life cycle, this study tries to find out the factors which affect the household medical and traveling spending. Using governmental statistical data and Tobit model, it empirically estimated how the socio-economical status of householder, general situation of family and disposable income of family influence household medical and traveling expenditure. Based on variables that affect medical and traveling expenditure among the stage of family life cycle, this study tries to analyze the traits and variation of family spending in Taiwan.