Universal Insurance with In-Kind Transfers: The Welfare Effects of Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan NEW DRAFT COMING SOON!
Why Women Work the Way They Do: Roles of Fiscal Policies (joint with Sagiri Kitao) R&R at International Economic Review
Aging Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability: Women’s Labor Supply in Japan (Joint with Sagiri Kitao) R&R at Economics Letters
Demography, Fiscal Sustainability, and Social Security System in Japan (Joint with Sagiri Kitao), In Oxford Handbook of the Japanese Economy, forthcoming.
Persistence and Irreversibility of Care-demanding Status: Insights from Long-Term Care Claims Data in Japan (Joint with Akira Kawamura, Toshihide Awatani, and Haruko Noguchi) BMC Geriatrics, 2026, Vol. 26, Article 139.
Medical Expenditures over the Life-cycle: Persistent Risks and Insurance (Joint with Taiyo Fukai, Hidehiko Ichimura, and Sagiri Kitao) Japanese Economic Review, 2025, Vol. 76, pp. 285-336. (Special Issue: "Heterogeneity and Macroeconomics") 2025 JER Best Article Award Paper [Link]
Who Suffers from the COVID-19 Shocks? Labor Market Heterogeneity and Welfare Consequences in Japan (Joint with Shinnosuke Kikuchi and Sagiri Kitao) Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2021, Vol.59, Article 101117.
Females, the Elderly and Also Males: Demographic Aging and Macroeconomy in Japan (Joint with Sagiri Kitao) Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020, Vol. 56, Article 101064.
"Social Security" (in Japanese) In Analyzing Japanese Politics with Theory and Data, Y. Asako and M. Zenkyo, Ed., Nippon Hyoron Sha, 2025, Chapter 7.
"Effects of the COVID-19 on the Labor Market and Inequality in Japan" (in Japanese) (joint with Shinnosuke Kikuchi and Sagiri Kitao) In Economics of the COVID-19 Crisis, K. Kobayashi and M. Morikawa, Ed., Nikkei, 2020, Chapter 15.
Female Labor Supply and Demographic Aging and Their Impacts on the Aggregate Economy and Fiscal Sustainability: A General Equilibrium-OLG Approach (in Japanese) (Joint with Sagiri Kitao and Kanato Nakakuni)
Heterogeneous Vulnerability to the COVID-19 Crisis and Implications for Inequality in Japan (joint with Shinosuke Kikuchi and Sagiri Kitao)
Timeline of Redistribution and Social Security Policy in Japan (in Japanese)