YUDA Michio

Health Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconometrics

2007 Ph.D.(Economics), Hitotsubashi University
2004 M.A. (Economics), Hitotsubashi University
2002 B.A. (Economics), Yokohama National University

2025 – Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University
2018 – 2025 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University
2010 – 2018 Associate Professor, School of Economics, Chukyo University.
2007 – 2010 Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Chukyo University.
2005 – 2007 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (DC2), Hitotsubashi University.

Books

• Economic Analysis of Health Policy: Evidence and Suggestions from Social Insurance Claims Data, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, December 2016 (with Yasushi Iwamoto, Wataru Suzuki, and Ryoko Morozumi, in Japanese).
• Economic Analysis of the Public Finance of the Japanese National Health Insurance System, Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, February, 2018 (in Japanese).

Papers Published in Refereed Journals

• "The impact of retirement on health: Empirical evidence from the change in public pensionable age in Japan," Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol.28: 100513, Elsevier, 2024 (with Fengming Chen and Midori Wakabayashi).
• "A survey on policy experiences in the Japanese public healthcare systems: Effects of patient cost sharing on healthcare utilization and health," Public Policy Review, Vol.19(4): 3, 2023.
• "Protective effects of health insurance against disasters: An insight from the Great East Japan Earthquake," Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, Vol21(4), pp.502-518, Cambridge University Press, 2022 (with Jinkook Lee).
• "Health care utilization under a comprehensive public welfare program: Evidence from Japan," Frontiers in Public Health: Health Economics, Vol10: 895679, Frontiers Media S.A, 2022.
• "Childhood health and future outcomes: Evidence from panel surveys for the Japanese population," Japan and the World Economy, Vol.54: 101014, Elsevier, 2020.
• "Medical assistance system and inpatient health care provision: Empirical evidence from short-term hospitalization in Japan," PLOS ONE, Vol.13(10): e0204798, 2018.
• "Effects of informal caregivers’ health on care recipients," Japanese Economic Review, Vol.67(2), pp.192-210, Wiley, 2016 (with Jinkook Lee).
• "Inefficiencies in the Japanese National Health Insurance system: A stochastic frontier approach," Journal of Asian Economics, Vol.42, pp.65-77, Elsevier, 2016.
• "Medical fee reforms, changes in medical supply densities, and supplier-induced demand: Empirical evidence from Japan," Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Vol.54(1), pp.79-93, 2013.
• "The impacts of recent smoking control policies on individual smoking choice: The case of Japan," Health Economics Review, Volume 3: 4, Springer Nature, 2013.
• "The Effect of Habitual Smoking on Labor Productivity," Applied Economics Letters, Vol.18(12), pp.1125-1132, Tayler & Francis, 2011.