Nopphol Witvorapong

Chulalongkorn University · Faculty of Economics

This study investigates the effects of socioeconomic status on health among older adults in China. It uses three waves of the nationally representative Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey conducted in 2005, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012. It explores two dependent dummy variables of self-rated health and functional health and employs subjective...

COVID-19 has had adverse impacts on the health sector in Thailand and information on hospital costs is required for planning and budgeting. The aim of this study was to estimate costs that the pandemic imposed on a teaching hospital in the country, focusing on the first wave which took place in March-May 2020. A retrospective cost analysis was perf...

Using three waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey in 2005, 2008-2009, and 2011-2012, this study investigates the effect of health insurance on health care utilization and health behaviors of older people in China. Enrollment in a health insurance program represents the main explanatory variable, while total health expenditures...

This study investigates the complex relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using integrated (individual-level) data from the European Value Surveys (EVS) and the World Value Surveys (WVS), covering respondents from 102 countries from 1989 to 2020. It hypothesizes that welfare regimes influence the relationship, categorizing countries...

Mechanisms underlying the relationship between parenthood and happiness are not well understood in all contexts; most existing studies focus on the working-age population in high-income settings. This study investigates different pathways through which parenthood influences happiness, using a large sample of older adults (N = 85,477) in a developin...

Based on three waves of the nationally representative survey conducted in 2005, 2008-2009, and 2011-2012, this study investigates the effect of living arrangements on intergenerational transfers in China. Outcomes of interest include monetary transfers, contact, informal care, and emotional support that adult children provide to older parents. Both...

Based on a structural VAR model estimated with Bayesian methods over the period of 1985Q1–2017Q1, we investigate the effects of health care policy uncertainty (HCPU) on the US health sector. We find that HCPU exerts a negative and significant impact on the growth rate of real health expenditures and health care inflation. It has an especially persi...

Based on nationally representative data (N = 8,901), this study investigates the extent to which expectations for intra-family transfers and government assistance in old age impact the probability of saving for retirement among working-age individuals in Thailand. Results show that expectations for financial non-self-reliance and expectations that...

Optimal breastfeeding practices can ensure healthy growth and development of infants, which in the long term can impact the country's economic development. Nevertheless, Myanmar has yet to achieve the WHO's target of 70% for early initiation of breastfeeding, and the country's target of 90% for exclusive breastfeeding. The purpose of this study was...

Using the 2012–2014 Labour Force survey (N = 109 947) and data from the Social Security Office, this study uses the standard hedonic wage approach to estimate the value of a statistical life (VSL) in Thailand. Population-weighted ordinary least-squares (OLS) and quantile regressions conditional on the 10th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th, and 90th perce...

*** The book is written in Thai (การตัดสินใจในระยะท้ายของชีวิตกับสังคมไทย: บทเรียนจากประสบการณ์ของต่างประเทศ) and is downloadable at: https://www.khonthai4-0.net/?p=3725

Introduction and aims: Most studies on tobacco and alcohol consumption empirically model the two behaviours separately. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the patterns of tobacco and alcohol co-consumption in Thailand, modelling the two behaviours jointly and identifying whether they complemented or substituted each other. Design an...

Written in Thai and published in Thailand and the World Economy, the article is available at: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/TER/article/view/207779

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a national alcohol-prevention social marketing campaign in Thailand, investigating specifically the competing forces of the campaign vis-à-vis alcohol advertising. Design/methodology/approach Based on repeated cross-sectional, nationally representative data from the 2011-2014 An...

Based on primary data of 453 drinkers in Thailand, this study investigates the impact of pre-commitment on alcohol consumption. It exploits the quasi-experimental nature of a social marketing campaign in Thailand implemented in 2014, where all drinkers were able to publicly pledge temporary alcohol abstention, and some but not all drinkers were pro...

This study represents the first study using Vietnamese data that is based on the World Health Organization’s quality of life instrument—the older adults module (WHOQOL-OLD). With the instrument, the study measures quality of life of a sample of 442 older adults living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2015. It evaluates the instrument’s psychometric...

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a program of antimalarial interventions implemented in 2010‐2013 in Niger State, Nigeria. Data Sources Utilization reports from 99 intervention and 51 non‐intervention health facilities from the Niger State Malaria Elimination Program, supplemented by data on facility‐level characteristics from the Niger...

“Buddhist Lent Dry Campaign” is an alcohol‐control programme that uses religious opportunities to promote behavioural changes among the Thai population. It is undertaken at the national and community levels. This study aimed to systematically evaluate the effectiveness of the community‐level intervention under the campaign on alcohol consumption be...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the cost and benefit of a community-based alcohol consumption control program during the Buddhist Lent (BL) period in terms of social return on investment (SROI). Design/methodology/approach The research team evaluated the program in four selected villages from four regions using standard SROI. Re...

Based on a nationally representative repeated cross-sectional sample of older individuals from the 2007 and 2011 Surveys of Older Persons in Thailand (n = 50,138, with the participation rate of 95.79%), this study investigates the extent to which healthy behaviours are interrelated with productive activities in old age. Healthy behaviours were repr...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the provision of nutrition information on food consumption behavior. Field experiments were conducted on undergraduate students from three universities. The total number of research participants was 375 undergraduate students. Each participant was randomly selected to answer one of 12...

As Thailand is rapidly aging, understanding intergenerational relationships and how to mitigate intergenerational conflicts becomes an increasingly critical issue. Using a Structural Equation Modeling approach and a nationally representative dataset collected in 2011, this paper investigates how the Thai working-age population views the elderly. A...

This study aimed to quantify the cost of institutional long-term care at Thammapakorn Social Welfare Development Center for Older Persons in Chiang Mai Province in 2014. The population of the study was all 104 older persons who lived at the center. The sample comprised 24 older persons with at least moderate dependence level as measured by activity...

The objective of this research is to calculate own-price and cross-price elasticities for different types of alcoholic beverages. This research draws from a secondary dataset, commissioned in 2013-4 by the Center for Alcohol Studies. The dataset contains 3,559 observations of current alcohol drinkers from 17 provinces in Thailand, all of whom were...

While existing research suggests that health-related conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have positive impacts on the utilization of CCT-targeted health services, little is known as to whether they also influence the utilization of non-targeted health services—defined as general health services for which program participants are not financiall...

This paper examines the relationship between the wealth of older parents and the receipt of in-kind and monetary transfers from non-resident adult children. Based on a nationally representative sample from the 2007 and 2011 Surveys of Older Persons in Thailand (N = 46,216), a sample-selected bivariate ordered probit model is employed. Different mea...

This paper examines the relationships between social participation and disaster risk reduction actions. A survey of 557 households in tsunami prone areas in Phang Nga, Thailand was conducted following the 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes. We use a multivariate probit model to jointly estimate the likelihood of undertaking three responses to earthquake...

Like many other countries, Indonesia has been moving towards universal coverage and plans to achieve universal coverage by 2019. The current health system has a couple of distinctive features as well as problems. First, despite the government’s effort to expand coverage and provide comprehensive benefit packages, the system could still be character...

Despite its low GDP per capita, the Sri Lankan government provides outpatient, inpatient and community health services to its citizens for free, with user charges abolished in 1951. However, the country’s tax-based scheme is weakening with a declining allocation of tax revenues to health care provision and problems have emerged, such as an implicit...