JAPAN AND THE WORLD ECONOMY 42 56-63 2017年6月 [査読有り]
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...
Paul Glewwe   Albert Park   Meng Zhao   
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 122 170-182 2016年9月 [査読有り]
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 2013年3月 [査読有り]
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 2012年7月 [査読有り]
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...