Lin, Yen-ju; Chen, Chun-chih - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2181-2197
This study analyzes the 2001 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health Insurance Research Dataset (NHIRD) in Taiwan to evaluate the impact of eating behavior on outpatient service utilization and expenditure using a two-part model. Our empirical analysis suggests that...