This study analyzes the impacts of COVID-19 on two elements: long-term care at home, which is available for care recipients who live in their own home, and working status in Japan. A regression analysis of municipality data reveals that the number of users of adult daycare is negatively...

I estimate the effects for combinations of multiple services in formal elder care at home on health status. As a reasonable substitute for expensive institutional care, formal care for the elderly in their own homes is gaining popularity in developed countries. Because care at home consists of...

We empirically assess the treatment effects of a place-based policy in Japan and propose a socially desirable and practically feasible treatment assignment rule for the program. To account for heterogeneity of treatment effects, we estimate the conditional average treatment effect for each...