Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 675
Cover Image
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa
McMillan, Margaret - 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/10013078849
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141356
Cover Image
Effectiveness of Government Policy : An Experience from a National Healthcare System
Yamada, Tetsuji - 2010
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/10013139839
Cover Image
Demographics and Aggregate Household Saving in Japan, China, and India
Curtis, Chadwick - 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/10013015546
Cover Image
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/10012779601
Cover Image
Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2010
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/10012759186
Cover Image
Demographic Dynamics, Labor Force Participation and Household Asset Accumulation : Case of Japan
Ando, Albert; Moro, Andrea - 2021
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/10013227507
Cover Image
The Effects of Alcohol Policies in Reducing Entry Rates and Time Spent in Foster Care
Markowitz, Sara - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the propensity for alcohol-related policies to influence rates of entry into foster care and the length of time spent in foster care. Alcohol consumption is believed to be major contributing factor to child maltreatment, associated with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127768
Cover Image
Tobacco Regulation Through Litigation : The Master Settlement Agreement
Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012
The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement resolved the unprecedented litigation in which the states sought to recoup the cigarette-related Medicaid costs. The litigation was settled through a combination of negotiated regulatory requirements and financial payments of about $250 billion over 25 years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116702
Cover Image
The Impact of the Aids Pandemic on Health Services in Africa : Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys
Case, Anne - 2012
We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunization for children born between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117036