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Rong Fu

Waseda University

1-104 Totsukamachi, Shinjuku-ku

tokyo, 169-8050

Japan

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

8

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691

TOTAL CITATIONS

3

Scholarly Papers (8)

1.

Does College Education Promote Healthier Behaviors? Evidence from Demographic Distortion Caused by Japanese Superstitious Behavior

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 15 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 26 May 2025
Waseda University - Waseda Institute of Social and Human Capital Studies (WISH), Waseda University and Waseda University
Downloads 179 (424,491)

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college education, health behavior, instrumental variable approach, superstition, Japan

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In Utero Exposure to Radiation Fear and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 01 Dec 2023
Waseda University, Waseda University - Waseda Institute of Social and Human Capital Studies (WISH) and Waseda University
Downloads 135 (540,814)
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Radiation fear; intangible risk factors; maternal stress; birth outcomes; fetal origin hypothesis

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The Impact of Contracting Formal Care Benefits on Informal Care Provision and Caregiver Well-Being: Evidence from Japan

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Mar 2022
Rong Fu, Dung LE and Yoko Ibuka
Waseda University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Keio University - Faculty of Economics
Downloads 118 (604,538)

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formal long-term care, informal caregivers, well-being, difference-in-difference

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Does Marriage Make Us Healthier? Evidence from Middle-Aged and Older Japanese

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Nov 2017
Rong Fu and Haruko Noguchi
Waseda University and National Institute of Population & Social Security Research
Downloads 96 (709,832)

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Dynamic panel data model; Health premium; Marriage; Middle-aged and Older Japanese

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Long-term Care in Japan

NBER Working Paper No. w31829
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Nov 2023
Waseda University, University of Tokyo and Waseda University
Downloads 76 (844,901)

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Wait-for-Discount: Strategic Deferral, Health Deterioration, and the Hidden Costs of Cost-Sharing Design

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 May 2026
Waseda University - Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Waseda University and Waseda University
Downloads 40 (1,290,922)

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Strategic Care Deferral, Wait-for-discount, Intertemporal Substitution, Offset Effect, Price Elasticity, Targeting Inefficiency, Dynamic Inefficiency, Administrative Claims Data (NDB) JEL Classification Codes: I11

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Relationships between Aerosols, Warm Clouds, and Meteorological Factors Associated with Environmental Conditions Derived from Multiyear Arm Observations

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Dec 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Waseda University, Stanford University and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Downloads 34 (1,304,549)

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cloud, aerosol, boundary layer height, ARM, Southern Great Plains, Eastern North Atlantic

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How Immigration is Changing the Black-White Earnings Gap

NBER Working Paper No. w34327
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Oct 2025
Waseda University, Columbia University - School of Social Work and Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Downloads 13 (1,518,554)
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