The Nexus between Long-term Care Insurance, Formal Care, Informal Care, and Bequests: The Case of Japan
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- Charles Yuji Horioka & Emin Gahramanov & Xueli Tang, 2024. "The Nexus between Long-term Care Insurance, Formal Care, Informal Care, and Bequests: The Case of Japan," Discussion Paper Series DP2024-24, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University.
- Charles Yuji Horioka & Emin Gahramanov & Xueli Tang, 2024. "The Nexus between Long-term Care Insurance, Formal Care, Informal Care, and Bequests: The Case of Japan," NBER Working Papers 32744, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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JEL classification:
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2024-08-19 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-HEA-2024-08-19 (Health Economics)
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