Would Household Medical Expenditure Affect Chinese Citizens to Have More Children?

Abstract

This research investigates how household medical expenditure affects Chinese citizens having more children. We examined the causal relationship and found a negative influence of household medical expenditure on the willingness to have more children, confirming that increasing household expenditure on medical care may specifically decrease the high willingness. Chinese policymakers should adopt appropriate and effective strategies to mitigate the potential negative effects of household medical expenditure on the birthrate. These analyses emphasize the importance of promoting economic growth, increasing public health expenditure, and increasing medical security in the context of population imbalance and the trend of a rapidly aging society in order to encourage people to have more children, thereby slowing population decline.

Influence Mechanism Analysis of the Spatial Evolution of Inter-Provincial Population Flow in China Based on Epidemic Prevention and Control

“…In this context, China's economic development faces severe challenges. The outbreak of the epidemic and the prevention a nd control measures taken will not only have a direct impact on the development of related industries but also spread to the periphery through the industrial chain, thus having a relatively far-reaching indirect impact on macroeconomic development (Baldwin & Krugman, 2004 ; Caligiuri et al, 2020 ; Chang, 2022 ). Therefore, while suppressing the large-scale spread of the virus, it is crucial to carefully optimize control strategies to minimize losses and improve the stability of the social system based on analyses of the impact of traffic control and other epidemic prevention and control measures on population flow and further short-term dynamic trends of population distribution.…”