Health Care Expenditure over Life Cycle in the People’s Republic of China

• Main Authors: Feng, Jin, Lou, Ping Yi, Yu, Yang Yang
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Age-expenditure profile; Health expenditure; Rural–urban integration JEL codes: I10, J11
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81583; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39566; https://openaccess.adb.org/handle/11540/4088
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We use individual level data from eight waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey during 1991–2011 to investigate age profiles of health expenditure for rural and urban residents in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Employing a two-part model, we find that health expenditure of rural reside...