Research
Working papers/in progress
Access to Formal Childcare for Toddlers and Parental Employment and Earnings with Taiyo Fukai, ESRI discussion paper Series No.387 , March 2024.
Subtle Recovery of Completed Fertility in Japan Presented at AASLE 2023 PDF
Publications (incl. forthcoming)
Scars of the Job Market "Ice-Age" RIETI Discussion Paper 23-E-042 Non technical summary(Japanese) accepted by Social Science Japan Journal
“Households’ Responses to Childcare Fees: Childcare Usage and Parental Labor Supply（保育料が保育所利用と親の就業に与える影響）”, with Taiyo Fukai, 経済分析第202号（特別編集号）, 2021.
CREPE Discussion paper 97
Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries, with Masahiro Shoji. Journal of Urban Economics, vol 113, 2019. Full text link
Earlier version: IZA Discussion Paper No. 9708.
The effects of graduating from college during a recession on living standards, with Daiji kawaguchi. Economic Inquiry. Volume58, Issue1, Pages 283-293, January 2020. Full text link
Impact of increased Long-term Care Insurance payments on employment and wages in formal long-term care. Journal of the Japanese and International Economy, vol.53, 101034. September 2019. Full text link
Almost final version with Appendix IZA Discussion Paper No. 12383
Earlier version CREPE Discussion Paper No.6
The Effects of Supply Chain Disruptions Caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake on Workers. Japan and the World Economy Volume 47, 2018, Pages 40-50. Full text link.
Working paper version RIETI Discussion Paper 17-E-089
The Effectiveness of Demand-Side Government Intervention to Promote Elderly Employment: Evidence from Japan, with Hitoshi Shigeoka. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 70 (4): 1008-1036. August 2017. Full text link.
Working paper version available via SSRN.
Researchers' Career Transitions over the Life Cycle, with Daiji kawaguchi and Keiji Saito. Scientometrics, 109(3), 1435-1454. 2016. Full text link.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10080
Availability of Long-term Care Facilities and Middle-aged People’s Labor Supply in Japan. Asian Economic Policy Review, 12 (1) 95-112, January 2017. Full text link
The effects of recessions on family formation. IZA World of Labor, March 2016 website
Effects of increased elderly employment on other workers' employment and elderly's earnings in Japan. IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5:2. Full text link (open access)
Differential Effects of Graduating during Recessions across Gender and Race. IZA Journal of Labor Economics,2015, 4:23. Full text link (open access)
This paper was revised heavily during the review process. Please do not cite ISERP WP version (2007).
Inter-industry labor reallocation and task distance, with Saori Naganuma. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies Volume 38 127-147, December 2015. Full text link
Full version including the Appendix: TCER Working Paper E-95
Effects of Universal Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization, and Supply-Side Responses: Evidence from Japan, with Hitoshi Shigeoka. Journal of Public Economics, 99: 1-23, March 2013. Full text link
Almost final version available via SSRN
In Search of a Better Life: The Occupational Attainment of Rural and Urban Migrants in China, with Dongshu Ou. Chinese Sociological Review, 46(1): 25-59, 2013. Full text link
Earlier version: ISER Discussion Paper No793, Osaka University.
Long-term effects of labor market conditions on family formation for Japanese youth, with Yuki Hashimoto. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 26(1): 1-21, March 2012. Full text link
Earlier version: ISER Discussion Paper No789, Osaka University.
Fiscal Policy Cyclicality and Growth within the US States, with Justin Svec. The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 12(2): Article 2, March 2012. Full text link
Gender-specific labor market conditions and family formation. Journal of Population Economics, 25(1): 151-174. December 2011. Full text link
Long-term effects of a recession at labor market entry in Japan and the United States, with Yuji Genda and Souichi Ohta, Journal of Human Resources, 45(1): 157-196, Winter 2010. Full text link
Earlier version: ISERP working paper 2007|09, Columbia University.
Does the First Job Really Matter? State Dependency in Employment Status in Japan. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 21: 379-402, September 2007. Full text link
Non-refereed Publications in English
Review Essay: Does Promoting Elderly Employment Hurt Young Japanese Workers?, Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 20, Issue 2, 1 August 2017, Pages 279–285. Full text link.