"Revealed" Comparative Advantage in Japan and the United States

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Race, Education Attainment, and Happiness in the United States

Background and aims: As suggests by the Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDR) theory, educationattainment and other socioeconomic status (SES) indicators have a smaller impact on the health andwell-being of non-White than White Americans. To test whether MDR also applies to happiness, in thepresent study, Blacks and Whites were compared in terms of the effect of education attai...

Feminism and Abortion in the United States’ Party Politics

Abstract The feminist movement in the United States like other countries has tried to establish equality for women. From the first attempts to gain constitutional right for vote, up to the current radical demands, feminists have struggled to make changes in the U.S. party politics and obtain their rights within the parties. One of the important issues in which women played a key role in party ...

Biostatistics in the United States and Japan.

This issue of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES includes the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Cancer Research Program. The conference brought together American biostatisticians with Japanese mathematicians and epidemiologists to exchange ideas in statistical methods and approaches applied in cancer research in...

Machinery in the United States, Sweden and Germany: An assessment of changes in comparative advantage