书目名称 | Exploring the Effect of Retirement on Health in Japan |
编辑 | Masaaki Mizuochi |
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概述 | Identifies the causal effect of retirement on health in Japan.Focuses on the heterogeneity in the effect of retirement on health.Proposes policies to keep retirees healthy in a super-longevity society |
丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Population Studies |
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描述 | This book examines the relationship between retirement and health of older people in Japan’s super-aging society and provides a key to understanding the remarkable longevity of the population. It also furnishes new evidence in this research field where the findings have been conflicting and the detailed causal mechanism has not been clarified for many years. For that purpose, a large-scale survey was used, “The Longitudinal Survey of Middle-Aged and Elderly Persons,” which was conducted in Japan from 2005 to 2015 with 34,240 respondents aged 50–59 years in the first sample. Using this longitudinal survey, which focused on people just before retirement, and rigorous causal inference including instrumental variable and panel estimation, several research questions were tested..Specifically, existing literature does not provide sufficient findings about the heterogeneity in the effect of retirement on health. Thus, we have questions which should be addressed:does retirement affect health immediately or with delay; does the lifestyle before retirement matter for post-retirement health; and which is better for health retiring early or late? The lack of this viewpoint is believed to have |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | Retirement; Health; Health Behavior; Life Style; Japan |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2638-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-16-2637-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-16-2638-8Series ISSN 2211-3215 Series E-ISSN 2211-3223 |
issn_series | 2211-3215 |
copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021 |