Overview
The primary objective of this project is to focus on the health and education sectors, wherein measuring the outputs and productivities still are academically and practically unclear. The project will aim to use the various sets of micro level data and empirically analyze the determinants of the outputs and productivities. The key may be the establishment of causality. While rigorously addressing endogeneity, we seek an optimal resource allocation in both sectors and propose more cost-effective policies to improve the outcomes at each stage of people's life cycle.
April 21, 2015 - March 31, 2017
Major Research Results
2017
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 17-E-082
"Empirical Study on the Utilization and Effects of Health Checkups in Japan" (INUI Tomohiko, ITO Yukiko, KAWAKAMI Atsushi, MA Xin Xin, NAGASHIMA Masaru and ZHAO Meng) - 17-J-036
"Regional Variations in Access to Healthcare among Japanese Individuals over 50 Years Old: An analysis using JSTAR" (SHOJI Keishi and IBUKA Yoko)
2016
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 17-E-041
"Japanese Version of Concerted Cultivation Associated with Adaptation to Lower Secondary Education" (MATSUOKA Ryoji) - 17-E-039
"Health-Related Income Gaps and the Effectiveness of Redistributive Policies in Japan" (ZHAO Meng (KONISHI Moe)) - 17-E-030
"Impacts of an ICT-assisted Program on Attitudes and English Communicative Abilities: An experiment in a Japanese high school" (HIGUCHI Yuki, SASAKI Miyuki and NAKAMURO Makiko) - 17-J-024
"The Negative Peer Effect: Why do peers' success have a negative effect?" (TOYAMA Risako, ITO Hirotake, TABATA Shin, ISHIKAWA Yoshiki and NAKAMURO Makiko) - 17-J-014
"The Effect of Class Size Reduction on Bullying, Violent Behavior, and Truancy" (NAKAMURO Makiko) - 17-J-004
"Co-Payment Exemption and Healthcare Utilization after the Great East Japan Earthquake: A natural experiment study" (MATSUYAMA Yusuke, TSUBOYA Toru, TANIGAMI Kazuya, OMINAMI Takahiro, TASO Tadateru, MURAMATSU Gaku and BESSHO Shun-ichiro) - 17-J-001
"Daycare Quality is Associated with Infants' Development in Japan: Comparison of childcare qualities of small-sized and medium-sized nurseries" (FUJISAWA Keiko and NAKAMURO Makiko)