KUMAGAI NARIMASA
| Department of Economics | Professor |
Career
- Apr. 2019 - Present
Seinan Gakuin University, Department of Economics, Professor - Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2019
Kindai University, Faculty of Economics, 教授 - Sep. 2009 - Aug. 2010
Visiting Scholar, The University of Queensland (Mayne Medical School) - Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2010
Kindai University, Faculty of Economics, 准教授 - Apr. 2004 - Mar. 2007
Kindai University, Faculty of Economics, 助教授 - Apr. 2000 - Mar. 2004
Fukuyama University, Faculty of Economics, 講師 - Apr. 1992 - Feb. 1993
The Chugoku Shimbun, 編集局経済部, Reporter
Educational Background
Papers
- ★Random Forest Model used to Predict the Medical Out-of-Pocket Costs of Hypertensive Patients
Kumagai, N; Jakovljević, M
Frontiers in Public Health, section Health Economics, Lead, 12, 1382354, Jul. 2024, Reviewed - Distinct Effects of Community-based Activities on Long-term Care Needs: A Study using Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression
Kumagai, N; Fukuda, H
Global Health Economics and Sustainability, Lead, 1(1), 0891, Sep. 2023, Reviewed - ★Could High Continuity of Care (COC) have a Negative Impact on Subjective Health of Hypertensive Patients? A Japanese Perspective
Kumagai, N; Nishimura, S; Jakovljević, M
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, Lead, 21, 39-48, Jun. 2023, Reviewed - Editorial: Global population aging – Health care, social and economic consequences, volume II
Jakovljević, M; Kumagai; N; Ogura, S
Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1184950, Apr. 2023, Reviewed - Editorial: Global excellence in health economics: Asia and Australasia
Jakovljević, M; Chang, H; Kumagai, N
Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1172632, Mar. 2023, Reviewed - Determinants of Regular Season Wins: Evidence from the NPB in Japan
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Journal of Japan Society of Sports Industry, 32(1), 71-81, Jan. 2022, Reviewed - ★The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physician Visits in Japan
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Frontiers in Public Health, section Health Economics, 9, 743371, Nov. 2021, Reviewed - Editorial: NCDs-Core Challenge of Modern Day Health Care Establishments
Jakovljević, M; Sharma, T; Kumagai, N; Ogura, S
Frontiers in Public Health, section Health Economics, 9, 692926, Jun. 2021, Reviewed - ★Valuation of Health Losses of Women with Multiple Roles using a Well-Being Valuation Approach: Evidence from Japan
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
PLOS ONE, 16(5), 1-13, May 2021, Reviewed - Assessing Recurrence of Depression using a Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Model: A Secondary Analysis of Lifelog Data
KUMAGAI, Narimasa; TAJIKA, Aran; HASEGAWA, Akio; KAWANISHI, Nao; FUJITA, Hirokazu; TSUJINO, Naohisa; JINNIN, Ran; UCHIDA, Megumi; OKAMOTO, Yasumasa; AKECHI, Tatsuo; FURUKAWA, Toshi A.
Psychiatry Research, Lead, 300, 113919-113925, Apr. 2021, Reviewed - On Collaborative Studies between Social Medicine and Health Economics using Individual Activity Records of Depressive Patients
KUMAGAI, Narimasa; TAJIKA, Aran; GOTO, Rei; FURUKAWA; Toshi A
Iryo Keizai Kenkyu (Japanese Journal of Health Economics and Policy), Lead, 32(2), 78-89, Mar. 2021, Not reviewed, Invited - The Supply-side Constraints of Children's Cafeterias and Subsidizing its Costs
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Journal of Social Security Research, 5(3), 356-367, Dec. 2020, Reviewed - ★Predicting Recurrence of Depression using Lifelog Data: An Explanatory Feasibility Study with a Panel VAR Approach
KUMAGAI, Narimasa; TAJIKA, Aran; HASEGAWA, Akio; KAWANISHI, Nao; HORIKOSHI, Masaru; SHIMODERA, Shinji; KURATA, Ken'ichi; CHINO, Bun; FURUKAWA, Toshi A.
BMC Psychiatry, Lead, 19(1), 391-402, Dec. 2019, Reviewed - Care Preferences of Elderly People Living Alone in Japan
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Health Education and Public Health, 1(2), 101-109, Dec. 2018, Reviewed - Non-response Bias in the Longitudinal Survey of Middle-aged and Elderly Persons: Focusing on Non-respondents in Informal Caregiving
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Iryo Keizai Kenkyu (Japanese Journal of Health Economics and Policy), 29(2), 120-131, Mar. 2018, Reviewed - ★Distinct Impacts of High Intensity Caregiving on Caregivers' Mental Health and Continuation of Caregiving
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Health Economics Review, 7(15), 1-14, Apr. 2017, Reviewed - ★Persistence of Physical Activity in Middle Age: A Nonlinear Dynamic Panel Approach
KUMAGAI, Narimasa; OGURA, Seiritsu
European Journal of Health Economics, Lead, 15(7), 717-735, Sep. 2014, Reviewed - Vertical Equity and Inequality of Allotments
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Iryo Keizai Kenkyu (Japanese Journal of Health Economics and Policy), 21(2), 99-113, 2009, Reviewed - The Effect of Cost Containment on the Outpatient in Japan: A VAR Approach
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
The Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy, 6(2), 157-170, Nov. 2007, Reviewed - Municipal subsidies for public hospitals and horizontal equity in health care
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Iryo Keizai Kenkyu (Japanese Journal of Health Economics and Policy), 19(1), 37-51, Jul. 2007, Reviewed - An Empirical Evaluation of a Higher Co-payment by Time Series Data in Japan
Narimasa Kumagai; Nobuyuki Izumida
Iryo To Shakai (Journal of Health and Society), Lead, 17(1), 125-140, May 2007, Reviewed - An Empirical Analysis on Medicaid
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Iryo To Shakai (Journal of Health and Society), 12(3), 39-59, Dec. 2002, Reviewed - 医療需要と公的年金の計量経済分析(博士論文)
熊谷 成将
未出版(広島大学), Mar. 2000, Not reviewed
Miscellaneous
- The Projection Bias in Regular Season Wins of the NPB in Japan
Narimasa KUMAGAI
The Economic Review (Seinan Gakuin University), 58(1-4), 237-248, Mar. 2024, Not reviewed - The Two Challenges of the Use of Micro-Health Data
Kumagai, Narimasa
The Journal of Economics of Kwansei Gakuin University, 76(3), 21-39, Dec. 2022, Not reviewed, Invited - ★Predicting Recurrence in Depressed Patients in Remission using a Smartphone App and Wearable Device
Tajika, Aran., Kumagai, Narimasa., Furukawa, TA.
Japanese Journal of Preventive Psychiatry, 7(1), 3-12, Dec. 2022, Not reviewed, Invited - Physical Inactivity of Workers and its Relation to the Uneven Allocation of Public Sports Facilities
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Ikoma Journal of Economics, 13(1), 1-21, Jul. 2015, Not reviewed - ★Socioeconomic Determinants of Physical Inactivity among Japanese Workers
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
Discussion paper series (Center for Intergenerational Studies; Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University), (535), Jan. 2012, Not reviewed - ★On the Causality among Social Insurance Burden Rate, Health Care Expenditures and Public Pension
KUMAGAI, Narimasa; TAKABAYASHI, Kikuo
The Hiroshima Economic Review, Lead, 32(2), 33-44, Nov. 2008, Not reviewed
Books and other publications
- Economic Analysis of Lifestyle and Subjective Health
Narimasa KUMAGAI, Single work
Koyoshobo, Feb. 2022
9784771035836 - 社会保障の計量モデル分析 : これからの年金・医療・介護
国立社会保障・人口問題研究所 編, Contributor, 第10章 構造的ＶＡＲモデルによる外来医療費の分析
東京大学出版会, Mar. 2010
9784130511322
Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
- Valuation of Health Losses among Japanese Workers with Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic
KUMAGAI,Narimasa; TAJIKA, Aran
The 19th Annual Conference of Japan Health Economics Association, Sep. 2024 - Random Forest Model used to Predict the Medical Out-of-Pocket Costs of Hypertensive Patients
Kumagai, Narimasa; Jakovljević, Mihajlo
Spring Meeting of Japanese Economic Association, May 2024 - ★Predicting Recurrence of Depression using Lifelog Data: A Panel VAR Approach.
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
ISPOR Europe 2018 (Barcelona International Convention Centre), Nov. 2018 - ★Do Health-Enhancing Behaviors Protect the Physical Health of Informal Caregivers?
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
12th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association (Boston University), Jul. 2017 - ★Effects of Health Checkup Attendance on Caregivers’ Physical Health
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
4th International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care (London School of Economics and Political Science), Sep. 2016 - ★Gender Differences in the Determinants of Mental Health of Co-residential Caregivers
KUMAGAI, Narimasa
3rd International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care (London School of Economics and Political Science), Sep. 2014 - ★Persistence of Physical Activity in Middle Age: A Nonlinear Dynamic Panel Approach
KUMAGAI, Narimasa; OGURA, Seiritsu
9th World Congress International Health Economics Association (The Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre), Jul. 2013
Courses
- Economic Statistics
Seinan Gakuin University - Introductory Economics
Kindai University - 外国文献研究
近畿大学 - 社会福祉論
近畿大学 - 医療と福祉
福山大学 - 情報処理
福山大学 - Health Economics
Kindai University, Seinan Gakuin University - Social Policy
Kindai University - Public Finance
Fukuyama University - Public Economics
Fukuyama University - Social Security
Fukuyama University, Kindai University, Seinan Gakuin University - Econometrics
Fukuyama University
Academic society affiliations
Research Themes
- ★Economic Evaluation of Health Losses Accounting for Two Major Risks during Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Aug. 2024 - Jul. 2025 - ★Monetary Valuation of Mutual Help-related Subjective Health and Health Losses
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Seinan Gakuin University
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2024 - ★The Burden of Informal Caregiving and the Health Investment Behavior of Caregivers
Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2019 - ★Economic Analysis on Exercise Habits, Drinking Habits and Subjective Health
Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015 - ★Vertical Inequity in Inpatient Care and Allocation of Health Care Resources in Secondary Medical Care Zone
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Kinki University
Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2010 - Analysis on the effects of the decentralization on the efficiency and equity of the social security system
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
2005 - 2007
Academic Contribution Activities
- Reviewer
Peer review
BMC Geriatrics, 1 paper, 16 Dec. 2024 - Present - Reviewer
Peer review
BMJ Global Health, 1 paper, 11 Dec. 2024 - Present - ★Reviewer
Peer review
A Member of the iHEA Scientific Committee Review Panel for the 2025 World Congress, 20 Nov. 2024 - Present - Reviewer
Peer review
Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, 1 paper, 11 Nov. 2024 - Present - Reviewer
Peer review
Econometrics, 1 paper, 30 Aug. 2024 - Present - Reviewer
Peer review
BMC Health Services Research, 1 paper, 17 Jul. 2024 - Present - Reviewer
Peer review
Frontiers in Public Health (Aging and Public Health), 2 papers, 07 Jun. 2024 - Present - Reviewer
Peer review
Global Health Economics and Sustainability, 1 paper, 22 May 2024 - Present - Reviewer
Peer review
Economies, 1 paper, 06 May 2024 - Present - ★A Member of the Editorial Board
Planning etc
Global Health Economics and Sustainability, May 2023 - Present - ★A Member of the Senior Associate Editor
Planning etc
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, Jan. 2021 - Present - ★Guest Editor
Review
Frontiers in Public Health (Health Economics), Jul. 2020 - Present - ★Session chair & Designated discussant
Panel chair etc
The 19th Annual Conference of Japan Health Economics Association, 07 Sep. 2024 - 07 Sep. 2024 - Reviewer
Peer review
A Member of the iHEA Scientific Committee Review Panel for the 2023 World Congress, Dec. 2022 - Jan. 2023 - Scientific Committee
Planning etc
A Member of the Program Committee for the 17th Annual Conference of Japan Health Economics Association, Nov. 2021 - Sep. 2022 - ★A Member of Review Committee, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Peer review
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jul. 2020 - Jun. 2022 - Scientific Committee
Planning etc
A Member of the Program Committee for the 16th Annual Conference of Japan Health Economics Association, Jan. 2021 - Sep. 2021 - Reviewer
Peer review
A Member of the iHEA Scientific Committee Review Panel for the 2021 World Congress (the 1st virtual Congress), Jan. 2021 - Jan. 2021 - Reviewer
Peer review
A Member of the iHEA Scientific Committee Review Panel for the 2019 World Congress, Dec. 2018 - Jan. 2019 - Reviewer
Peer review
A Member of the iHEA Scientific Committee Review Panel for the 2017 World Congress, Dec. 2016 - Jan. 2017
