Labor-Market Attachment and Training Participation (with Toshie Ikenaga), forthcoming in Japanese Economic Review.
Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time (with Jungmin Lee and Daniel Hamermesh), forthcoming in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.
Actual Age at School Entry, Educational Outcomes, and Earnings, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 64-80, 2011.
Incumbent's Price Response to New Entry: The Case of Japanese Supermarkets(with Naohito Abe), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies,
Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 196-212, 2010.
Is Minimum Wage an Effective Anti-Poverty Policy in Japan (with Yuko Mori), Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 14, No,. 4, pp. 532-554,
2009.
The Productivity of Public Capital: Evidence from the 1994 Electoral Reform
of Japan (with Fumio Ohtake and Keiko Tamada), Journal of the Japanese and International
Economies, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 332-343, 2009.
Working Mothers and Sons' Preferences Regarding Female Labor Supply: Direct
Evidence from the Stated Preferences (with Junko Miyazaki), Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 22, No. 1,
pp. 115-130, 2009.
The Union Wage Effect in Japan (with Hiromi Hara), Industrial Relations, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 569-590,
2008.
Wage Distribution in Japan: 1989-2003 (with Ryo Kambayashi and Izumi Yokoyama), Canadian Journal of Economics.,
Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 1329-1350, 2008.
Self-employment Rents: Evidence from Job Satisfaction Scores, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 35-45, 2008.
The Causal Effect of Graduating from a Top University on Promotion: Evidence
from the University of Tokyo's 1969 Admission Freeze (with Wenjie Ma), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 184-196,
2008.
Green Taxes and Double Dividends in a Dynamic Economy (with Gerhard Glomm and Facundo Sepulveda), Journal of Policy Modelling, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 19-32, 2008.
Testing the Morale Theory of Nominal Wage Rigidity (with Fumio Ohtake), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 61, No.
1, pp. 59-74, 2007.
A Market Test of Sex Discrimination: Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level
Panel Data, International Journal of Industrial Organization,Vol. 25, No. 3, pp.
441-460, 2007.
The Impact of Minimum Wage on Female Employment in Japan (with Ken Yamada), Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 107-118,
2007.
The Incidence and Effect of Job Training among Japanese Women, Industrial Relations, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 469-477, 2006.
Are Computers at Home a Form of
Consumption or an Investment? A Longitudinal Analysis for Japan, Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 69 -86, 2006.
Negative Self Selection into Self Employment among African Americans, Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 9, No. 1, Article 9, 2005.
Attrition Bias in Economic Relationships Estimated with Matched CPS Files (with David Neumark), Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 445-472,
2004.
Peer Effects on Substance Use among American Teenagers, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 351-367, 2004.
Human Capital Accumulation of Salaried and Self-Employed Workers, Labour Economics, Vol. 10, pp.55-71, 2003.