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2025.3.25

“Disaster Exposure and Informal Caregiving Burdens: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake” by Mr. Takumi Toyono, a graduate student of Master Program of Economics (Class of 2023), was awarded “Dean of Graduate School of Economics Award” and “the Ono Azusa Memorial Prize (Academic Division)”. (For the abstract of the thesis, please see the page of master's thesis).

2024.3.25

“The impact of coinsurance rate changes for healthcare expenditure on public long-term care utilization” by Mr. Takamasa Yamaguchi, a graduate student of Master Program of Economics (Class of 2021), was awarded “Dean of Graduate School of Economics Award” (For the abstract of the thesis, please see the page of master's thesis).

2023.9.16

“Impact of telework on birth rates in Japan: Evidence from micro-level panel data on employment dynamics” by Ms. Alice Chong, a graduate student of Master Program of Economics (Class of 2021), was awarded “Dean of Graduate School of Economics Award” (For the abstract of the thesis, please see the page of master's thesis).

2022.9.17

“Empirical Study on Regional Differences in Generic Drug Use - Quantitative Verification Using Japan Health Insurance Association Claims Data” by Ms. Ayame Fujimoto, a graduate student of Master Program of Economics (Class of 2000), was awarded “Dean of Graduate School of Economics Award” (For the abstract of the thesis, please see the page of master's thesis).

2022.6.24

“Research using claims data to analyze factors affecting changes in the structure of health care costs in light of aging (empirical research on estimating the elasticity of policy changes as a “natural experiment”)” was adopted as one of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Project funded by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (FY2022 – FY2023).

2022.6.21

“Sustainable system design for health care and long-term care - Utilization of administrative big data through international comparative studies” was adopted as one of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (FY2022 – FY2025).

2022.03.25

“The Effect of "Empirical Evaluation of Impact of Physical Exercise that Make the Most of Regional Characteristics (Gotouchi Taiso)" on the Risk of Long-Term Care Needs among Old People (in Japanese)” by Mr. Nobuaki Sato, a graduate student of Master Program of Public Management (Class of 2020) were awarded “Nobuyuki Ohkuma Award”. (For the abstract of the thesis, please see the age of master's thesis).

2020.09.20

“Spillover effects of minimum wages on suicide mortality: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japan” by Mr. Yuji Mizushima, a graduate student of Master Program of Economics (Class of 2018), was awarded “Dean of Graduate School of Economics Award” (For the abstract of the thesis, please see the page of master's thesis).

2020.09.5

“Does income affect medical care and long-term care expenditure for the elderly?: Evidence from claims data of a municipality in Japan” by Ms. Mayumi Imahori (co-authors: Takashi Kurihara, Haruko Noguchi), a PhD student of Graduate School of Economics, was awarded “Conference Article Award” at 15th Annual Conference of Japan Health Economics Association.

2020.03.25

“How Does a Natural Disaster Affect the Behavior and Outcomes of Parents and Children in Middle Childhood?: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake” by Mr. Shuhei Kaneko, a graduate student of Master Program of Economics (Class of 2018) were awarded “Mamoru Iijima Commemorative Academic Award”. (For the abstract of the thesis, please see the age of master's thesis).

2020.03.25

“Effects of introducing Emergency Relief Center Project (# 7119) in government-designated cities on the arrival time of ambulances and the transport time to hospitals (in Japanese)” by Mr. Kei Delawary, a graduate student of Master Program of Public Management (Class of 2018) were awarded “Nobuyuki Ohkuma Award”. (For the abstract of the thesis, please see the age of master's thesis).

2020.03.25

“Impact of raising the ratio of childcare leave benefits on childbirth in 2014 (in Japanese)” by Mr. Yuji Miura, a graduate student of Master Program of Public Management (Class of 2018) were awarded “Tsukushi Tetsuya Award”. (For the abstract of the thesis, please see the age of master's thesis).

2019.12.10

Dr. Rong Fu, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Political Science and Economics, was awarded a discussant award at the 2nd Asian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics.

2019.11.13

Dr. Rong Fu, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Political Science and Economics presented a paper entitled “Established: Demographic and socioeconomic determinants of living alone in Sweden and Japan (collaborators:Dr. Glenn Sandström and Dr. Mojgan Padyab of Umeå universitet, Sweden)” at MIRAI Ageing Seminar in Stockholm University, Sweden.

2019.9.7

“How Does the Natural Disaster Affect Parents’ Labor Force Participation and Children’s Outcomes?” by Mr. Shuhei Keneko, a master student of Graduate School of Economics, was awarded “Best Presentation Award for Younger Scholars” at the 14th Annual Conference of Japan Health Economics Association in Tokyo-Akasaka Campus, International University of Health and Welfare.

2019.9.7

Mr. Yichen Shen, a PhD student of Graduate School of Economics presented a paper entitled “The Impact of the Coverage of Smoking Cessation Aids on Marijuana Use Outcomes (co-author: Haruko Noguchi)” at the 14th Annual Conference of Japan Health Economics Association in Tokyo-Akasaka Campus, International University of Health and Welfare.

2019.7.27

Mr. Yuji Mizushima, a master student of Graduate School of Economics and his team members from undergraduate (Name of Team: SURGE) won Japan Association of Political Economy Awards at 1st Data Science Competition to predict the results of House of Councillors election on 21st of July, at Waseda University in Tokyo.

2019.7.17

Mr. Yuichi Watanabe, a PhD student of Graduate School of Economics presented a paper entitled “Do Health Checkups Reduce Costs and Utilization of Healthcare? Evidence from a Local Municipality in Japan (co-authors: Haruko Noguchi, Nobuyuki Izumida)” at World Congress of International Health Economics Association (iHEA) in Basel, Switzerland.

2019.7.16

Mr. Yichen Shen, a PhD student of Graduate School of Economics presented a paper entitled “How Does the Introduction of the Oral Chemotherapy Drug Parity Laws Affect the Health Outcomes Among Cancer Patients in the United States? (co-author: Haruko Noguchi)” at a poster session of World Congress of International Health Economics Association (iHEA) in Basel, Switzerland.

2019.7.15

Mr. Shuhei Kaneko, a master student of Graduate School of Economics presented a paper entitled “Kill Two Issues with One Stone -Simple Methodology for Dealing with Sample Selection and Endogenous Regressor (The Case of Mental Health and Labor Productivity)-(co-author: Haruko Noguchi)” at World Congress of International Health Economics Association (iHEA) in Basel, Switzerland.

2019.7.15

Dr. Cheolmin Kang, Associate Researcher of Waseda Institute of Political Economy (WINPEC) presented a paper entitled “Does Free Healthcare Affect Children’s Healthcare Use and Outcomes? Evidence from Japan’s Medical Subsidy for Infants and Children (co-authors: Akira Kawamura, Haruko Noguchi)” at World Congress of International Health Economics Association (iHEA) in Basel, Switzerland.

2019. 7.13

Dr. Rong Fu, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Political Science and Economics presented a paper entitled “How Did Hospitals Respond to Prospective Payment System under the Japanese Universal Healthcare System? (co-author: Haruko Noguchi)” at Pre-Congress and Sponsored Sessions: Early Career Researcher (ECR) Pre-Congress Session I of World Congress of International Health Economics Association (iHEA) in Basel, Switzerland.

2019.7.2

Registration form for 2nd Asian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics (AWEHE) is ready now. Please click here.

2019.7.1

“Toward the implementation of scientific evidence to real health care policy -utilization of big data by the integration of social science, science, and engineering-” was adopted as one of Challenging Research (Pioneering) (FY2019 – FY2022).

2019.6.16

Dr. Cheolmin Kang, Associate Researcher of Waseda Institute of Political Economy (WINPEC) presented a paper entitled “Does Free Healthcare Affect Children’s Healthcare Use and Outcomes? Evidence from Japan’s Medical Subsidy for Infants and Children (co-authors: Akira Kawamura, Haruko Noguchi)” at 2019 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in Xiamen, China.

2019.6.14

Dr. Masato Oikawa, Postdoctoral Fellow (PD) of Faculty of Political Science and Economics presented a paper entitled “Effects of the Health Checkup on the Health Outcomes and Behaviors: Heterogeneous Effects Depending on Education” at 2019 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in Xiamen, China.

2019.6.9

Dr. Rong Fu, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Political Science and Economics presented a paper entitled “How Did Hospitals Respond to Prospective Payment System under the Japanese Universal Healthcare System? (co-author: Haruko Noguchi)” at 2019 Spring Meeting of Japan Economic Association in Musashi University, Tokyo.

2019.5.13

We presented a paper entitled “Differences in Cancer Patients’ Work-Cessation Risk, based on Gender and Type of Job: Examination of Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Super-Aged Japan” at University of Waseda Day in Universität Bonn, Germany. This study is financially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Project funded by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (FY2017 – FY2018).

2019.4.1

“Creation and implementation of scientific basis for children's human capital: Development of policy evaluation process by government-academic collaboration” was adopted as one of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (FY2019 – FY2021).

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