The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for social scientists to create … large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census to another or from other sources to the census. We …

postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing well - an unusual finding for a developed economy. Adopted heirs …

leading to severe banking crisis in Japan; 2) The foreign reserves' meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy …

this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …

To analyze business fixed investment in Japan, which has been unusually volatile in recent years, we develop and apply …

base control in Japan …

therefore overstate the national saving rate. Recently, Hayashi has recalculated Japan's national saving according to the … American Department of Commerce definition and found that from the mid-1970s until today, Japan's national saving rate is … measures are constructed from the balance sheets of the household sectors in the United States and Japan. Far from being equal …