2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Microeconometric Analysis on the Risk of Medical Care Cost in Public Health Insurance
| Project/Area Number |
21730202
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | Toyo University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 医療保険 / 医療費リスク / 計量経済分析 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study empirically investigates Japanese medical care cost and health insurance coverage using micro-level data. It is well known that the medical care cost is concentrate on infancy, childhood, and old-age. This study is organized as following three parts. (1) The research on concentration and persistence of health care expenditure using health insurance claims data. (2) The research on the relationship between long-term care insurance facilities and elderly's interregional migration using Japanese municipal-level data. (3) The research on mother's fertility behavior using individual-level data. These researches offer numerous suggestions on medical care cost and health insurance coverage.
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