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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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Determinants of Smoking Cessation : An Analysis of Young Adult Men and Women

Tauras, John A. - 1999

Substantial econometric efforts have been devoted to examining the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking propensity and intensity. However, little is known about the effects prices, smoking restrictions, and other influences have on smoking cessation. This paper uses...

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Economic Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

Philipson, Tomas - 1999

Infectious disease is currently the main cause of mortality in the world and has been even more important historically. This paper reviews recent research in economic epidemiology. Specifically, it discusses the occurrence of infectious diseases and the effects of public health interventions...

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Knowledge, Stigma, and HIV Testing : An Analysis of a Widespread HIV/AIDS Program

Yang, Dean; Allen, James E.; Mahumane, Arlete; Riddell, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by improving knowledge and reducing stigmatizing attitudes. Contrary to expectations, the program has a substantial negative effect on HIV testing rates. We provide evidence of likely...

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