This paper explores the causal effect of volunteer work providing daily assistance to the elderly on elderly mortality … increase in the level of volunteering. Based on a comparison of mortality between the municipalities with no or little loss of … that were not hit by the earthquake, I find that volunteering significantly reduced elderly mortality. Close attention is …

This study examines the health capacity to work among older persons in Japan-that is, how much longer older persons can … work based on their health status using nationwide population-based surveys. We first examine how much older persons could … work if they worked as much as those with the same mortality rate in the past (Milligan-Wise method). Second, we estimate …

respond differently to an information shock and are subject to different cognitive biases, but also highlight the role of …

This paper explores the causal effect of volunteer work providing daily assistance to the elderly on elderly mortality … increase in the level of volunteering. Based on a comparison of mortality between the municipalities with no or little loss of … that were not hit by the earthquake, I find that volunteering significantly reduced elderly mortality. Close attention is …