household income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance factors in both Japan and the USA. Using these two … rises, households have a positive effect on purchasing health insurance as a normal good. Another similarity between the two … case. Since the Japanese insurance data had variables such as payments per day of hospitalization if household gets …

subsidized health insurance coverage to virtually every American at age 65, Medicare reduces the cost of retiring for workers who … receive health benefits from their employers, especially when those benefits do not continue after retirement. As a result, an … increase in the age of Medicare eligibility might affect retirement behavior by relating the health insurance costs of …

prevents us from identifying the causal effect of income change on mental health as measured by the full version of CES-D and … mental health is larger for vulnerable populations with financial and health constraints. We further discuss potential … pathways through which pension may affect mental health. …

patterns of older individuals across countries. We develop a life cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous …