This paper purports to estimate the characteristics of women who had experiences of abortion in 1991 based on an economic model of fertility. The study makes use of a national survey on the knowledge of, attitude towards, and practice of family planning and reproductive health among married...

This paper investigates the impact of diabetes on employment based on the 2005 National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan using a recursive bivariate probit model. The findings show that diabetes has a negative and significant effect on employment, and that the magnitude is larger for men than...

This paper uses a panel data set comprising 23 cities for the years 1979-2002 in Taiwan and a fixed-effects model to find evidence of the effect of economic instability on infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates. In addition, the effects of income, demographic factors, and the...