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Effects of Multidimensional Poverty on Health Indicators in Japan: Income, Time, and Social Relations

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In recent years, many studies have been tackling the measurement of multidimensional poverty, reflecting the diversification and complexity of poverty even in developed countries as well as developing countries. These studies treat on several dimensions of poverty such as education and living environment as well as income, but few of them consider the time dimension. This study attempts to investigate the impact of multidimensional poverty including time poverty on key health indicators (self-rated health (SRH), psychological distress (K6)) in Japan. By using individual data from Japanese Study on Stratification, Health, Income, and Neighborhood (J-SHINE) [2010, 2012], we measured multidimensional poverty index, based on the method of Alkire and Foster (Journal of Public Economics 95:476–487, 2011). We mainly set three dimensions of poverty (income, time, and social relations) and investigated the impact on health statuses, controlling other important variables. Results obtained from the analysis confirmed the practical relevance of multidimensional poverty for predicting health indicators.

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    However, Kalenkoski et al. (2011) showed a positive relation between time poverty and subjectively evaluated health levels using the American Time Use Survey. Regarding this result, they pointed out that it is likely attributable to the fact that employed people have, on average, better health status than those who are not employed, and are also more likely to be time-poor.

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    Regarding the detailed characteristics of J-SHINE data, refer to Takada et al. (2014).

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    Because many men living alone are likely to outsource much of their housework by, for instance, dining outside instead of cooking at home, the minimum housework time required at female one-person households was substituted for that at male one-person households.

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    Wei Wang

  2. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Kunio Urakawa

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  1. Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University (Emeritus Professor), Fukuoka, Japan

    Moriki Hosoe

  2. Seoul National University, Seoul, Soul-t´ukpyolsi, Korea (Republic of)

    Biung-Ghi Ju

  3. School of Economics, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan

    Akira Yakita

  4. Department of Economics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Soul-t´ukpyolsi, Korea (Republic of)

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Wang, W., Urakawa, K. (2019). Effects of Multidimensional Poverty on Health Indicators in Japan: Income, Time, and Social Relations. In: Hosoe, M., Ju, BG., Yakita, A., Hong, K. (eds) Contemporary Issues in Applied Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7036-6_17

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