The Impact of Food-Away-From-Home Expenditure on Health Care Expenditure in Taiwan

• Main Author: 鄭雅君
• Other Authors: WU,CHAO-CHIN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/af7ax5

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 財稅學系 === 106 === This paper used data from the “Report of Survey of Family Income and Expenditure” in 2006 and 2016. And the paper also analyze the influencing factors of Taiwan’s health care expenditure by Quantile Regression. In order to observe the distribution and contribution of the explanatory variables to health care expenditure over the two years, we used OB (Oaxaca-Blinder) decomposition and RIF (Recentered Influence Function) decomposition to explore the factors that contributed to the difference in health care expenditure between 2006 and 2016. The result indicates: First, food-away-from-home expenditure, household disposable income, number of employment, 65 years old, adults of family, the gender of the head of the household, educational level of the head of the household, family population, population of income earners and family type have significant influence on health care expenditure in 2006. And the result is also similar to 2016. Second, in OB decomposition, we found that the difference between health care expenditure in 2006 and 2016 was due to the increase in the food-away-from-home expenditure. Third, about the RIF analysis, the main factors for the difference between health care expenditure over the two years are the coefficient effect of the food-away-from-home expenditure, household disposable income, the age of the head of the household, family population, number of employment, the gender of the head of the household and family type.