This paper examines the effect of being out of work, which is in a broader category of unemployment, on the physical and mental health of younger Japanese men using panel data. A fixed effects model, widely used to control for unobserved individua...
Japan and the World Economy 22(1) 1-12 2010年1月 [査読有り]
In this paper, we investigate the effects of cost sharing on the demand for physician services in Japan by using a natural experiment, namely, the increase in the coinsurance rate for household heads in 1997. Our primary finding from the two-year ...
Mari Kan Hiroto Yoshida Yoshinori Fujiwara Naoki Watanabe Yumiko Tsuchiya Shoji Shinkai
[Nippon kōshū eisei zasshi] Japanese journal of public health 53(9) 688-701 2006年9月 [査読有り]
PURPOSE: To examine factors associated with participation in a community based comprehensive health check to screen frail elderly before they become in need of long-term care. METHODS: All residents aged 70 years and over living in Kusatsu, Gumma ...
This study examines the effect of the 1997 increase in the coinsurance rate for household heads on the demand for medical care and estimates the price elasticity of demand using the change as a natural experiment. It analyses both outpatient and i...
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