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Ryuichi Tanaka
| Division | Department of Comparative Contemporary Economics |
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| Research Fields | Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics |
| Homepage | https://sites.google.com/site/ryuichitanaka/home |
| Researchmap | https://researchmap.jp/ryuichi-tanaka?lang=en |
Teaching and Research Appointments
| April 2015 − March 2017 |
Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
| April 2017 - | Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
Topics of Research
- 1Determinants of educational achievement
- 2On the effect of COVID-19 on social science research
- 3Philosophy of Social Science
Selected Publications
- "Book Review: Nihon no safety net no kakusa – roudou sijyo no henyo to syakai hosho (Inequality in the safety net of Japan - The transformation of the labor market and social security)" Social Science Japan Journal, Vol 25, Issue 2, Summer 2022, pp.395–398.
- "Inefficiency in School Consolidation Decisions" (with Eric Weese), RIETI Discussion Paper 23-E-002, January 2023.
- "The Rank of Socioeconomic Status within Class and the Incidence of School Bullying and School Absence" (with Atsushi Inoue), RIETI Discussion Paper 23-E-003, January 2023.
- "School Accountability and Student Achievement: Neighboring Schools Matter" (with Atsuyoshi Morozumi), RIETI Discussion Paper 23-E-004, January 2023.
- "Should School-level Results of National Assessments be Made Public?"" (with Atsuyoshi Morozumi), IZA Discussion Papers No. 13450, July 2020 (updated August 2022).
- "Do Class Closures Affect Students’ Achievements? Heterogeneous Effects of Students’ Socioeconomic Backgrounds" (with Masato Oikawa, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Akira Kawamura, and Haruko Noguchi), RIETI Discussion Paper 22-E-042, May 2022.
- “Do Teachers’ College Majors Affect Students’ Academic Achievement in the Sciences? A Cross Subfields Analysis with Student-Teacher Fixed Effects” (with Atsushi Inoue), Education Economics, (forthcoming).
https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2022.2119549 - “Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for Covid-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area” (with Masato Oikawa, Shun-ichiro Bessho and Haruko Noguchi), American Journal of Health Economics, vol. 8(4), pages 449-479, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.1086/719354 - “Fiscal Policy Changes and Labor Market Dynamics in Japan's Lost Decade” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel, and Xiangcai Meng), Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 26(7), pages 1691-1730, October, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S136510052100002X - “La sfida demografica del Giappone e il suo impatto sull'economia: Lezioni per l'Italia (Japan’s Demographic Challenge and its Impact on the Economy: Lessons from and for Italy, in Italian)”, Sebastiano Maffettone and Marco Valerio Lo Prete (ed.), Italia e Giappone La sfida demografica (Italy and Japan: the Population challenge), LUISS University Press, 2022.
https://luissuniversitypress.it/pubblicazioni/italia-e-giappone/ - “Gender Norms and Women's Decision to Work: Evidence from Japan” (with Núria Rodríguez-Planas), Review of Economics of the Household, vol. 20(1), 15-36, March 2022.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-021-09543-0 - “Additional Teacher Allocation and Problematic Behavior of Students: A Role of Households' Economic Environment” (with Atsuyoshi Morozumi, in Japanese), JCER Economic Journal (Nihon Keizai Kenkyu), Japan Center for Economic Research, 79, 93-126, 2021.
- “Monitoring Health Service Delivery: Evidence from Civil Conflict in Nepal” (with Nirmal Kumal Raut), World Development, 146, 105543, October 2021.
- “Municipal Administrative Data” (in Japanese), Japan Journal of Labor Studies, No. 741, 2022.
- “Population Decline and Life of High School Students: Analysis of the Impact of Widening Commuting Area” (with Ayako Kondo), Crisis Response Studies: Regional Crisis, Kamaishi's Response: Multi-layered Structure, (edited by Shaken, Y. Genda and N. Nakamura, University of Tokyo Press, 2020, (in Japanese).
- “Toward an Evidence-Based Education Policy: An Examination of the Effect of Class Size Reduction Using Municipal Education Data,” Journal of Social Security Research, Vol. 5, No. 3, 325-340, 2020.
- “Accountability in Education and Recognition of Bullying: An Analysis of Municipality-Level Data in Tokyo” (with Shun-ichiro Bessho and Atsuyoshi Morozumi), Public Policy Review, September 2020, Vol.16, No.6
- “Relationship between School Attendance Support and Academic Performance: An analysis of Panel Data from Adachi Ward” (with Haruko Noguchi, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Koichi Ushijima, Akira Kawamura), Public Policy Review, September 2020, Vol.16, No.6
- “Building an Administrative Database of Children” (with Shun-ichiro Bessho, Haruko Noguchi, Koichi Ushijima and Akira Kawamura), Public Policy Review, September 2020, Vol.16, No.6.
- “Evaluating Remedial Education in Elementary Schools: Administrative Data from a Municipality in Japan” (with Shun-ichiro Bessho, Akira Kawamura, Haruko Noguchi, and Koichi Ushijima), Japan and the World Economy, 50, 36-46 (2019). Also in the special issue Economics of Education in Japan edited by Shin-ichi Fukuda and Ryuichi Tanaka.
- “The Effect of School Operational Assistance Program on Investment in Education by Household: Evidence from Indonesia” (with Nia Pramita Sari), Economics and Finance in Indonesia, 65, 2, 149-168 (2019)
- “Immigration and the Public-Private School Choice” (with Lidia Farre and Francesc Ortega), Labour Economics, 51, 184-201 (2018). European Association of Labour Economists Labour Economics Prize Winner 2019
- “Immigration, Assimilation, and the Future of Public Education” (with Lidia Farre and Francesc Ortega), European Journal of Political Economy, 52, 141-165 (2018).
- “Do Teaching Practices Matter for Students' Academic Achievement? A Case of Linguistic Activity” (with Kazumi Ishizaki), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 50, 26-36 (2018).
- “Parental Absence, Remittances, and Educational Investment of Children Left Behind: Evidence from Nepal” (with Nirmal Kumal Raut), Review of Development Economics, 22, 4, 1642-1666 (2018).
- “Changes in Japan's Labor Market during the Lost Decade and the Role of Demographics,” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel and Xiangcai Meng), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 43, 19-37 (2017)
- “Economics of Income Inequality and Educational Investment” (in Japanese), The Economic Analysis (The Keizai Bunseki), No.195, 62-90 (2017).
- “On the Demand for Higher Education” (in Japanese), The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies, No. 687 (2017).
- “Immigration and Political Economy of Public Education” (with Francesc Ortega), Gary Freeman and Nikola Mirilovic (ed.), Handbook on Migration and Social Policy, Edward Elger Publishing, pp.121-136 (2016).
- “Education Policy and Migration,” (with Lidia Farre), Francesco Fasani(ed.), Refugees and Economic Migrants: Facts, policies and challenges, Fasani ed., CEPR Press, pp. 125-137 (2016).
- First Steps in Econometrics: An Encouragement of Empirical Analysis (in Japanese), Yuhikaku (2015)
- “On the Effect of Pronatal Policies on Residential Location Choice and Fertility” (with Ryo Nakajima, in Japanese), Housing and Land Economy (Jutaku Tochi Keizai), 98, Fall, 20-27 (2015).
- “Estimating the Effects of Pronatal Policies on Residential Choice and Fertility” (with Ryo Nakajima), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 34, 179-200 (2014).
- “On the Role of Job Assignment in a Comparison of Education Systems” (with Katsuya Takii), Canadian Journal of Economics, 46, 1, 180-207 (2013).
- “Taxation Categories for Long-term Care Insurance Premiums and Mortality among Japanese Elderly: A Cohort Study” (with Yoshihisa Fujino, Tatsuhiko Kubo, and Shinya Matsuda), Journal of Epidemiology, 23, 1, 41-46 (2013).
- “Testing the Incentive Effects in Tournaments with a Superstar“ (with Kazutoshi Ishino), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 26, 3, 393-404 (2012).
- “Are Contingent Jobs Dead Ends or Stepping Stones to Regular Jobs? Evidence from a Structural Estimation” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel and Ryo Nakajima), Labour Economics, 18, 4, 513-526 (2011).
- “Do Birth Allowances Increase the Birthrate?: An Empirical Analysis using Health-Insurance Union Panel Data” (with Toshiaki Kouno), Japanese Economy, 38, 1, 40-58 (2011).
- “TFP Growth Slowdown and the Japanese Labor Market in the 1990s” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel and Ryo Nakajima), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 24, 1, 50-68 (2010).
- “Does the Diversity of Human Capital Increase GDP?: A Comparison of Education Systems” (with Katsuya Takii), Journal of Public Economics, 93, 7-8, 998-1007 (2009).
- “Inequality and Education Decisions in Developing Countries” (with Catalina Gutierrez), Journal of Economic Inequality, 7, 1, 55-81 (2009).
- “Do Childbirth Allowances Matter for Fertility? Evidence from Japanese Health Insurance Data” (with Toshiaki Kouno, in Japanese), JCER Economic Journal (Nihon Keizai Kenkyu), Japan Center for Economic Research, 61, 94-108 (2009).
- “The Gender-Asymmetric Effect of Working Mothers on Children's Education: Evidence from Japan,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 22, 4, 586-604 (2008).
- “Timing of Trade Liberalization,” Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 16, 4, 447-473 (2007).
- “Inequality as a Determinant of Child Labor,” Economics Letters, 80, 93-97 (2003).
Educational Activities
| Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo |
Economics of Education |