关键词: 人口年龄结构, 抚养系数, 医疗保健消费, 动态面板

Abstract: This paper uses the method of GMM to analysis the impacts of population age structure (measured by the youth dependency ratio and the old dependency ratio) on household health care consumption with the panel data from Chinese provinces during the period 2001－2010. The result suggests that the youth dependency ratio does not have a significant impact on household health care consumption, while the old dependency ratio has a positive impact on the household health care consumption, with the rising of the old dependency ratio, the household health care consumption is increasing. In addition, we also find that the lag period coefficient of the residents’ health care consumption is positive, and the coefficient of the system GMM two-step is 0.51; the growth of per capita income has a positive impact on the household health care consumption.

Key words: Population Age Structure, Dependency Ratio, Health Care Consumption, Dynamic Panel Data