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Demographic and economic change in developed countries : a conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research
Gille, Halvor (contributor) - 1960
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328937
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Population and economic change in developing countries
Easterlin, Richard Ainley (ed.); Easterlin, Richard A. (ed.) - 1980
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000068130
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Maternal Health and the Baby Boom
Albanesi, Stefania - 2010
U.S. fertility rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for women born in 1932. It dropped to a new low of 1.74 children for women born in 1949, before stabilizing for subsequent cohorts. We propose a novel explanation for this boom-bust pattern, linking...
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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2013
This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459417
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Effectiveness of Government Policy : An Experience from a National HealthCare System
Yamada, Tetsuji - 1994
elderly patients in the context of the initiative taken by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan to discourage lengthy … hospital treatment and/or stay by elderly patients. By using three leading diseases among the elderly in Japan (cancer, heart …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474133
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Health care issues in the United States and Japan
Wise, David A. (ed.); Yashiro, Naohiro (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003212049
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Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility Within Developed Nations
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2008
fertility nations (Japan, Spain, Italy) as being in this regime. At even higher levels of women's status, men begin to share in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464531
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Policy Options for Financing the Future Health and Long-Term Care Costs in Japan
Fukui, Tadashi - 2006
As the Japanese population structure changes, health care and long-term care costs will steadily increase. The current style of financing (pay-as-you-go) will create a large increase in future burden of these costs. This paper studies an alternative policy that prefunds the social insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466238
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Demographic Dynamics, Labor Force Participation and Household Asset Accumulation : Case of Japan
Ando, Albert - 1995
A dynamic model of the demographic structure of Japan is summarized. It is capable of tracing the dynamic development … Japan will increase slightly in the immediate future as the number of children per family declines sharply, and then fall …, unless some major changes in Japanese saving behavior take place, our analysis suggests that Japan will have an unusually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473614
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Demographics and Aggregate Household Saving in Japan, China, and India
Curtis, Chadwick C. - 2015
aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457114