We estimate intergenerational income mobility in Taiwan, employing repeated cross-sectional data. We find that the father-son, father-daughter,mother-son and mother-daughter income elasticitiesat- 40 are around 0.18, 0.23, 0.50 and 0.54, respectively. Moreover, the mother-child income elasticity...

The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate Taiwanese married women's grocery shopping behavior in relation to their labor force participation status. In this study, focus is limited to their grocery shopping frequency which is meant to be a proxy for an input to household...

This paper examines the distribution structural functions (DSFs) and quantile structural functions (QSFs) in a semiparametric treatment effect model. The DSF and QSF are defined as the distribution function and quantile function of the counterfactural outcome when covariates are exogenously...

This paper investigates the impacts of national health insurance on the labor market, by considering the case of Taiwan, which implemented national health insurance in March 1995. Taiwan’s national health insurance is financed by premiums, which are proportional to an employee’s salary....