KOBAYASHI GENYA    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2015/01
Type	Academic Journal
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	The impact of social workers on infant mortality in inter-war Tokyo: Bayesian dynamic panel quantile regression with endogenous variables
Contribution Type	Co-authored (other than first author)
Journal	CLIOMETRICA
Journal Type	Another Country
Publisher	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Volume, Issue, Page	9(1),pp.97-130
Author and coauthor	Kota Ogasawara, Genya Kobayashi
Details	Although no comprehensive sickness insurance system existed in Japan until the mid-twentieth century, the infant mortality rate in Japan started to decline from the early twentieth century onwards, specifically owing to health improvements in low-income areas. This paper focuses on the impact of social workers called Homen iin on reducing the infant mortality rate in inter-war Tokyo. These social workers were in charge of the medical casework and provided access to medical treatment for low-income households under the District Committees System. To examine how the activities of these social workers influenced infant mortality, this paper analyses panel data for Tokyo between 1926 and 1937. By employing the dynamic panel quantile regression approach, it is found that the activities of social workers played a vital role in mitigating the risk of infant mortality, especially in areas that had a higher infant mortality rate.
DOI	10.1007/s11698-014-0110-1
ISSN	1863-2505