The Future of the Public and Private Support System in Japan
Assistant Professor Rikiya Matsukura, one of the co-investigators in our project, held a key note lecture and made a presentation at the 2016 Population Association of Taiwan (PAT) conference at the end of April this year. The conference centered on the topic of population and public policy.
Prof. Matsukura delivered a lecture on the private and public support in Japan using the NTA indices. He also demonstrated that private and public expenditure in Taiwan will significantly rise in the future, by utilizing Taiwan’s NTA.
Furthermore, he made a presentation on research that demonstrates that the increasing private and public cost of children in Taiwan will be largely financed through private expenditure, as Taiwanese private expenditure on children will be the highest in the world at 18 times the average income of workers aged between 30 and 40. The research links that cost and expenditure with the problem of low fertility – it shows that a trade-off between the number and quality of children exists in Taiwan, and that raising fertility will be very costly in terms of policies.