This paper examines the choice of health care for minor aliments in Japan for patients suffering from thirteen different minor aliments. Original data were obtained from a survey conducted by the authors. For the common cold, shoulder/neck pain, backache, constipation/diarrea, asthenopia,...

Models which estimate influenza mortality probably overestimate this mortality because their baseline estimates include only nonepidemic weeks. We present a stochastic frontier estimation model which better reflects influenza mortality.

This article examines by means of Conjoint Analysis (Ca) the health care choice in Japanese people suffering from the common cold. CA is a stated preference technique that uses a survey and involves the hypothetical scenarios.

This paper examines how the unemployment benefit (UB) affects the intensity or search effort of the unemployed, which is measured by the workin conditions of a new job resultin from search behavior, controllin for the endo eneity of the duration of unemployment. Estimation results show that the...

This paper solves the pure consumption Grossman model numerically following dynamic programming method, and undertakes sensitivity analysis of the optimal length of life. This is the first analysis that treats the determination of optimal length of life explicitly with numerical analysis.