This study evaluates changes in access to health care in response to the pilot experiment of urban health insurance reform in China. The pilot reform began in Zhenjiang and Jiujiang cities in 1994, followed by an expansion to 57 other cities in 1996, and finally to a nationwide campaign in the...

We explore the usefulness of combining opinion surveys with time-series data to forecast Japanese economy. We demonstrate that the businessmen's judgemental variables might summarize contemporaneous information beyond that of actual series. The combined models do yield substantially more...