In this paper, we estimated the net agglomeration economies in the consumption side as well as the production side using Japanese city-based data of 1992, when interregional net migration nearly ceased. We showed that doubling city size increases the nominal wage by approximately 10% but...

We examine the question of which household members should consume medical services, and in what quantities, by using Japanese household-level data. We employ two key concepts, health risk and income risk, and investigate whether family heads or dependents bear these risks. Health risk is the...

We proposed two types of econometric models, a spatially clustered fixed-effects model (SCFEM) and a spatially correlated random-effects model (SCREM), to examine area-based panel data. We investigate what factors influence housing construction in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, incorporating...