Using the four-year academic records of 301 male students who enrolled in a specific department at a certain university in April 2016, this paper estimates the structural parameters of a sequential decision model of college dropout and conducts a counterfactual analysis. A well-known method for...

Using the four-year academic records of 301 male students who enrolled in a specific department at a certain university in April 2016, this paper estimates the structural parameters of a sequential decision model of college dropout and conducts a counterfactual analysis. A well-known method for...

The necessity of applying Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) in evaluating the validity of a public transport investment is well recognized by policy makers in recent days. Originating in a sense of this fact, we implement CBA in a new project called Osaka Monorail Saito Linefs extension by applying a...

In this paper, under the consideration on both local environmental status and transportation network, we implement Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) for the extension plan of Osaka Monorail Loop-line by applying a Choice Experiment (CE) method. It is estimated that the benefit cost (B/C) ratio is 1.35...

In this study, we examine what promotes individual's health-related activities and how these activities affect the individual's health status. For this purpose, we use data from an original survey conducted in Japan. We adopt an estimation model which takes into account the following points: the...