研究会

International Workshop on the Cost of Disaster

 19, August, 2019

 Workshop in the Faculty of Economics, at Kawaichi Campus, 4F, Large Meeting Room

 15:30- Greetings, Prof. Hiroshi YOSHIDA; The Director of Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, TOHOKU University

                吉田 浩（高齢経済社会研究センター教授 ）

 1535-1620 The Health Impact and the Post-disaster Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan. 

Yen-Lien KUO; Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Cheng Kung University

郭  彥廉(台湾国立成功大学社会科学系准教授)

This study uses Typhoon Morakot, which occurred in August 2009, as an example to examine the causal effect of flooding on health-care cost burden using the difference-in-difference (DID) method.

 1620-1700 Relocation and Cognitive Ability of the Residents in Disaster Area

Fengming CHEN（Assistant professor, Smart-Aging Research Center）

陳 鳳明（スマート・エイジング学際重点研究センター助教）

Using the individual data of “Questionnaire survey on the health condition of the elderly after the Great East Japan Earthquake” conducted by the Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, we investigate on the risk of dementia risk of elderly person of over 65 years old.