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Akira Kawamura

Waseda University

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Scholarly Papers (4)

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Impacts of Health Checkup Programs Standardization on Working-Age Self-Employed and Unemployed: Insights from Japan's Local Government Response to National Policy

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 08 Nov 2024
Masato Oikawa, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Toshihide Awatani, Haruko Noguchi and Akira Kawamura
Waseda University - Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University - Waseda Institute of Social and Human Capital Studies (WISH), Kochi Medical School, Waseda University - Graduate School of Economics and Waseda University
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health checkup, lifestyle-related diseases, health outcomes, health behaviors, cost-effectiveness

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Heterogeneous Impacts of Local Unemployment Rates on Child Neglect: Evidence From Japan's Vital Statistics on Mortality

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Aug 2024
Masato Oikawa, Takumi Toyono, Haruko Noguchi and Akira Kawamura
Waseda University - Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University - Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University and Waseda University
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child neglect, child death cases, unemployment rate, shift-share research design

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When Women Work, Children Thrive: Gender-Specific Employment Shocks and Child Abuse Deaths

WINPEC Working Paper Series No. E2523 November 2025
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 04 Nov 2025
Masato Oikawa, Takumi Toyono, Haruko Noguchi and Akira Kawamura
Waseda University - Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University - Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University and Waseda University
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child fatal maltreatment, gender-specific employment shocks, shift-share research design, maternal mental health JEL Classification Codes: I10

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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
Masato Oikawa, Rong Fu, Akira Kawamura and Haruko Noguchi
Waseda University - Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Waseda University and Waseda University
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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