lecture

Intensive course 2017

"Social Security"@Kobe University

Here are the lecture notes.

If you want to use it or if you have any comments or found errors that I made,

please feel free to contact me (sugano@econ.kobe-u.ac.jp).

1. Introduction to graduate Social Security course

2. Key facts from the data: Aging population and the economy

3. Public finance of social security

4. Empirical tools of social security

5. Medical insurance system in Japan

6. Moral hazard of medical insurance- RAND and the Oregon Health Insurance Experiments-

7. Public pension system

8. Elderly labor force participation: How does the pension system affect retirement?

9. Key research questions about pension system

10. Long-term care