About Me
I am an Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and a Faculty Member at the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago.
Fields of Concentration
Labor Economics
yasai [at] uchicago.edu
Publications
Temporary Work Contracts and Female Labor Market Outcomes, with Dmitri Koustas , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 208, 2023, in media: VoxEU
Effects of Subsidized Childcare on Mothers' Labor Supply Under a Rationing Mechanism, Labour Economics, Volume 55, 2018 (with Ryo Kambayashi and Shintaro Yamaguchi)
How Does Early Childcare Enrollment Affect Children, Parents, and Their Interactions?, Labour Economics, Volume 55, 2018 (with Ryo Kambayashi and Shintaro Yamaguchi)
Parental Leave Reforms and the Employment of New Mothers: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Japan, Labour Economics, Volume 36, 2015
Childcare Availability, Household Structure, and Maternal Employment, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Volume 38, 2015 (with Ryo Kambayashi and Shintaro Yamaguchi)
Working Papers
Gender Bias in Evaluation and Promotion, with Hideo Owan
An Analysis of the Labor Supply of Childcare Providers, with Akiei Jibiki
Costs of Employment and Flexible Labor Demand: Evidence from Maternity and Parental Leave Reforms in media: VoxEU
Work in Progress
Overtime premium and hours of work: Lessons from the mandatory increase in the overtime premium
Does Childcare Under Age 3 Matter?: Evidence on Maternal Labor Supply and Early Childhood Development from an Expansion of Subsidies
Teaching
Instructor, the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Lecturer, Labor Economics, Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley, summer 2017, 2018
Instructor, R Training Workshop, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, 2018, 2019, 2020
Invited lecture, Demographic Change in Japan, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, March 2017
Instructor, Statistics, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics, Mie University, Japan, 2013
Instructor, Information Processing in Economics, Department of Economics, Kanagawa University, Japan, 2010-2012
Conference and Seminar Presentations
2025: ASSA Annual Meeting (Scheduled)
2024: MEA (SOLE session), SOLE
2022: SOLE
2021: ASSA Annual Meeting, EUSP Economic Seminar
2020: EALE SOLE AASLE World Conference, ASSA Annual Meeting, Midwest Economics Association
2019: NORC University of Chicago, SOLE, Western Economic Association, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Empirical Microeconomics Workshop University of Tokyo
2018: Kansai Labor Workshop, Tokyo Keizai University
2017: 10th Trans Pacific Labor Seminar, Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics, Seoul National University
2016: European Economic Association, ASSA Annual Meeting (poster), University of California Berkeley, California State University East Bay
2015: 4th SOLE/EALE World Conference, 8th Trans Pacific Labor Seminar, Hitotsubashi Summer Institute, Yokohama National University, OEIO conference, Tohoku University
2014: 84th Annual Meetings Southern Economic Association, 7th Trans Pacific Labor Seminar, Sogang University, Labour and Public Policy Seminars Aarhus University
2013: 8th Applied Econometrics Conference Hitotsubashi University, Japan(Best Paper Award), 25th annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists, 18th Society of Labor Economists meetings(poster), Economic Science Association Asia-Pacific Conference
Other Skills
Karate Black Belt
Links
日本語の論文(Publications in Japanese)