Age–period–cohort decomposition of aggregate data: an application to US and Japanese household saving rates

An empirical analysis of US and Japanese

An empirical analysis of US and Japanese health insurance using age–period–cohort decomposition

✍ Kosei Fukuda 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 191 KB

## Abstract Aggregate data on household health insurance expenditure in the US and Japan that are classified by period and age are decomposed into age, period, and cohort effects by using the Bayesian cohort models. These models are developed to overcome the identification problem involved in cohor