9. Does Caregiving Affect Work? Evidence Based on Prior Labor Force Experience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research vi
4. Contents vii
5. Acknowledgments ix
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Evaluating Japan’s Health Care Reform of the 1990s and Its Efforts to Cope with Population Aging 17
8. 2. The U.S. Medical Care System for the Elderly 43
9. 3. An International Look at the Medical Care Financing Problem 69
10. 4. Removing the Instability and Inequity in the Japanese Health Insurance System 83
11. 5. The Volume-Outcome Relationship in Japan: The Case of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Volume on Mortality of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Patients 113
12. 6. Market Concentration, Efficiency, and Quality in the Japanese Home Help Industry 147
13. 7. A Comparison of the Quality of Health Care in the United States and Japan: Treatment and Outcomes for He art Attack Patients 165
14. 8. Geography and the Use of Effective Health Care in the United States 195
15. 9. Does Caregiving Affect Work? Evidence Based on Prior Labor Force Experience 209
16. 10. Conjoint Analysis to Estimate the Demand for Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Japan 229
17. Contributors 247
18. Author Index 249
19. Subject Index 253