テーマ：社会保障の経済学
年金と医療の分野における社会保障の経済効果と政策設計について，理論・実証研究の最近の展開を講義する。以下のようなトピックスをとりあげる予定である。
年金民営化，年金と労働供給，健康の需要，医療価格の計測，医療保険と逆選択，固定払いの医療サービスへの影響
適宜課す宿題と期末に課す小論文（8000字程度）を基準にする
文献リストは第１回講義時に配布するが，現在のところ以下のような文献を使用する予定である。
1. Social Security
Geanakoplos, John, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Stephen P. Zeldes (1998), "Would a Privatized Social Security System Really Pay a Higher Rate of Return?" NBER Working Paper, No. 6713.
Feldstein, Martin (1996), "Social Security and Saving: New Time Series Evidence," National Tax Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, June, pp. 151-164.
Mitchell Olivia S. and Flavio Ataliba Barreto (1997), "After Chile, What? Second-Round Pension Reforms in Latin America," NBER Working Paper, No. 6316.
Kotlikoff, Laurene J., Kent A. Smetters, and Jan Walliser (1998), "Opting Out of Social Security and Adverse Selection," NBER Working Paper, No. 6430.
Diamond, Peter (1998), "The Economics of Social Security Reform," NBER Working Paper, No. 6719.
Feldstein, Martin (1998), "Introduction" in Martin Feldstein ed. Privatizing Social Security, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 1-29.
Mitchell Olivia S. (1998), "Administrative Costs in Public and Private Retirement Systems" in Martin Feldstein ed. Privatizing Social Security, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 403-456.
Diamond, Peter and Jonathan Gruber (1997), "Social Security and Retirement in the U.S.," NBER Working Paper, No. 6097.
2. Health Care
2.1 Health and Economic Activities
Culter, David M. and Elizabeth Richardson (1997), "Measuring the Health of the U.S. Population," Brookings Papers: Microeconomics, pp. 217-271.
Bound, John (1991), "Self-Reported versus Objective Measures of Health in Retirement Models," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter, pp. 106-138.
Dwyer, Debra Sabatini and Olivia S. Mitchell (1998), "Health Problems as Determinants of Retirement: Are Self-Rated Measures Endogenous?" NBER Working Paper, No. 6503.
Gertler, Paul and Jonathan Gruber (1997), "Insuring Consumption Against Illness," NBER Working Paper, No. 6035.
2.2 Health Insurance
Diamond, Peter (1992), "Organizing the Health Insurance Market," Econometrica, Vol. 60, No.6, November, pp.1233-1254.
Cutler, David M. and Sarah J. Reber (1988), " Paying for Health Insurance: the Trade-Off Between Competition and Adverse Selection," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 113, No. 2, May, pp. 433-466.
Cochrane John H. (1995), " Time-Consistent Health Insurance," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 103, No. 3 June, pp. 445-473.
Albert Ma, Ching-to and Thomas G. McGuire (1997), "Optimal Health Insurance and Provider Payment," American Economic Review, Vol.87, No. 4, September, pp. 685-704.
2.3 Health Care Provisions
Cutler, David M. and Mark McClellan, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Dahlia Remler (1998), "Are Medical Prices Declining? Evidence from Heart Attack Treatments," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 113, No. 4, November, pp. 991-1024.
Baker, Laurece C. and Martin L. Brown (1997), "The Effect of Managed Care on Health Care Providers," NBER Working Paper, No. 5987.
Cutler, David M. and Louise Sheiner (1997), "Managed Care and the Growth of Medical Expenditures," NBER Working Paper, No. 6140.
Culter, David M. (1995), "The Incidence of Adverse Medical Outcomes under Prospective Payment," Econometirca, Vol. 63, No.1, January, pp. 29-50.