JAPAN AND THE WORLD ECONOMY 42 56-63 Jun 2017 [Refereed]
This paper examines the causal effects of retirement on health investment behavior among Japanese permanent employees. We find that the Japanese employees participate less in unhealthy habits (smoking and drinking) after retiring from their perman...
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 122 170-182 Sep 2016 [Refereed]
About 10% of primary school students in developing countries have poor vision, but very few of them wear glasses. Almost no research examines the impact of poor vision on school performance, and simple OLS estimates could be biased because studyin...
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS 32(2) 367-385 Mar 2013 [Refereed]
We examine the role of information in understanding the differential effects of income on the demand for health. In the health capital framework of Grossman (JPE, 1972), we derive the testable hypotheses that individuals adjust their diet in a hea...
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS 31(4) 584-598 Jul 2012 [Refereed]
Youth smoking can biologically reduce learning productivity. It can also reduce youths' expected returns to education and lower their motivation to go to school, where smoking is forbidden. Using rich household survey data from rural China, this s...
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