of the municipality National Health Insurance and the Japanese Health Insurance Association in Fukuoka Prefecture. We … suggest that increasing the coinsurance rate among the elderly would reduce outpatient healthcare resource utilization …

I study the consequences for labor market outcomes and sick leave of having an elderly parent in need of care. Using … a health shock. I find that employment and income of adult children are slightly reduced in the years leading up to the …

decisions. We investigate empirically and theoretically the life-cycle patterns of homeownership, housing and nonhousing assets … in retirement. Using an estimated structural model of saving and housing decisions, we find, first, that homeowners … 1996-2006 housing boom significantly increased homeowners' assets. These channels are quantitatively significant; without …

In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …

-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected by endogenous …, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not likely to be … strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are correlatedbecause of …