Education and income are important socioeconomic indicators that reflect different aspects of social hierarchy. However … that between income and health behaviour. According to the human capital theory of health investment, education would … reflect knowledge assets that allow an efficient investment in health, while income would relate to the value of healthy days …

An almost complete halt in the secular trend in stature at a relatively low level is observed in Japan since the late … Japanese genetic pool or in the nutritional intake do not provide a convincing explanation. Japan is unique among OECD … across the 47 Japanese prefectures and use data covering the period 1950-2005. A positive and significant influence of income …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the …