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2026: Fathers' Involvement in Domestic Work and Mothers' Employment: Evidence from Bunching

Mika Akesaka and Nobuyoshi Kikuchi

2026: Effects of Upstream Positions in Global Value Chains on Skilled Labor Wage Share in Chile: Evidence from Plant-Level Panel Data

Yoshimichi Murakami

2026: Trade Liberalization, Wage, and Unemployment: Theory and Evidence from Chile

Sayaka Takada and Yoshimichi Murakami

2026: Cyclical Activity and Inflation under Secular Stagnation: Empirical Evidence Using Data on Japan's Lost Decades

Masahiko Shibamoto

2026: Total Fertility Rates and Urban Agglomeration in Asia

Keisuke Kondo

2026: The Effects of Training under the Employment Adjustment Subsidy during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Japan

Takashi Kamihigashi and Corrado Di Guilmi

2026: Unemployment Fluctuation and Referral Hiring

Yoshitaka Ogisu

2026: The Effects of Training under the Employment Adjustment Subsidy during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Japan

Yudai Higashi and Masaru Sasaki

2026: Effects of Early Pension Withdrawal on Pre-Retirement Labour Supply: Evidence from Chile during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yoshimichi Murakami and Aya Noritake

2026: Stationary Distributions in Monotone Markov Models: Theory and Applications

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2026: Steady States with Giffen Goods in the Dynamic Two-Sector Model

Kazumichi Iwasa and Kazuo Nishimura

2026: Possible Network Infrastructure Securely Transferring Data Having Value, such as CBDCs

Wataru Takahashi and Taiji Inui

2026: Capital Flow Management Measures and Capital Flows: Evidence from India

Yang Zhou and Shigeto Kitano

2026: Measuring Trend Inflation Using Financial Condition: The Case of Japan

Masahiko Shibamoto

2026: National Institutions, Transparency and Accounting for Goodwill: Impairment Recognition under IFRS in Europe

Keishi Fujiyama and Sidney J. Gray

2026: Optimal Redistribution with Institutional Reference Points

Hirofumi Takikawa

2026: The Impact of Population Aging on the Household Saving Rate: The Case of Japan

Charles Horioka

2026: Imported Intermediate Digital Inputs and Income Inequality

Yanne Gabriella Velomasy, Hongsheng Zhang and Laixun Zhao

2026: Does the Timing of Productivity Shocks in Childhood Affect Educational Attainment?

Yuma Noritomo

2026: Household Saving in Japan: The Past, Present, and Future

Charles Horioka

2026: Effectiveness of Capital Controls: Gates versus Walls

Yang Zhou and Shigeto Kitano

2025: Reexamining the Factors Influencing Migration Decisions

Yishan Liu and Junyi Shen

2025: Complementarities between Long-Term Relationships and Short-Term Contracts: Case of Early Modern Japan

Hideshi Itoh, Takashi Shimizu and Yasuo Takatsuki

2025: Geopolitical Risk and Extreme Capital Flow Episodes

Yang Zhou and Shigeto Kitano

2025: A New Modeling Approach to Help Address the Trump Tariffs

Charles Horioka and Nicholas Ford

2025: Do Non-Prudent Consumers Ever Engage in Precautionary Saving? Two Observations on Risk and Precautionary Saving

Luigi Ventura and Charles Horioka

2025: Business-Cycle Dynamics: An Empirical Assessment

Masahiko Shibamoto

2025: Takatoshi Ito: Scholarship on Japan's Economy Transformed

Kosuke Aoki, Alan Auerbach, Charles Horioka, Anil Kashyap, Tsutomo Watanabe and David Weinstein

2025: Innovation, Market Concentration, and Inequality with Endogenous Time Preferences

Colin Davis and Laixun Zhao

2025: Gender Wage Gap in Rural Bangladesh: Assessing the Sticky Floor or Glass Ceiling Phenomenon and Its Determinants

Yoshimichi Murakami and Nur Nahar Yasmin

2025: Restricting Mothers' International Migration and Human Capital Investment

Takuya Hasebe, Yuma Noritomo and Bilesha Weeraratne

2025: The Real Effects of Going Concern Information on Investment Decisions

Masahiro Enomoto and Nobuhiro Asano

2025: Policy for Closing Education Gaps across Gender and Culture: Tuition-Free Education or School Construction?

Kotaro Fujisaki

2025: Did COVID-19 Deteriorate Mismatch in the Japanese Labor Market?

Yudai Higashi and Masaru Sasaki

2025: Social Networking Agency and Prosociality Are Inextricably Linked in Economic Games

Danyang Jia, Ivan Romic, Lei Shi, Qi Su, Chen Liu, Jinzhuo Liu, Petter Holme, Xuelong Li and Zhen Wang

2025: Inside Job, Chinese Style: Suspicious Use of Public Funds under Fiscal Pressure

Qun Bao, Rui Huang, Guoqin Pan and Laixun Zhao

2025: The Role of Cyclical Inflation: Evidence from Japan

Takuya Sakaguchi and Masahiko Shibamoto

2025: Family Head and Household Educational Expenditure in Three-generation Households: Evidence from China

Xiangyun Yin and Yosuke Sasaki

2025: Commodity Prices, Financial Frictions, and Macroprudential Policies

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku

2025: Bilateral Bargaining with a Biased Intermediary

Yusuke Yamaguchi

2025: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Income Inequality: Evidence from New Instruments

Junsong Shi and Yoshimichi Murakami

2025: Poverty Traps Driven by Family Bargaining

Yotaro Ueno

2025: Conformity and Leadership in Organizations

Shunsuke Matsuno

2025: Bequests

Charles Horioka

2025: Targeted Pricing and Vertical Structure

Ryo Masuyama

2025: Assistance-proofness

Ryoga Doi

2025: Minimum Wage Disparities and Internal Migration: Evidence From China

Qianqian Yang and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2025: Minimum Wage in China

Qianqian Yang and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2025: Should the Industrial Region Fear Hollowing Out by Raising the Minimum Wage?

Qianqian Yang and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2025: Revisiting Minimum Wage: From Labor Economics to Spatial Economics

Qianqian Yang and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2025: Hotter Days, Wider Gap: The Distributional Impact of Heat on Student Achievement

Mika Akesaka and Hitoshi Shigeoka

2025: Why Do Europeans Save? Micro-Evidence from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey

Charles Horioka and Luigi Ventura

2025: On the Impact of Long-term Care Insurance on the Behavior of Parents and Children: Theory and Evidence on Japan

Charles Horioka, Emin Gahramanov and Xueli Tang

2025: Technology and Professional Associations

Masashi Goto

2025: The Determinants of the Growth of Japanese Start-ups: A Resource-based View Analysis

Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Joao Carlos Ferraz

2025: Testing for Spatial Autocorrelation in Stata

Keisuke Kondo

2025: Identification of Relationship Lending in Bank-Borrower Networks

Yoshitaka Ogisu, Shoka Hayaki and Masahiko Shibamoto

2025: Power of Values-based Investors on ESG Actions of Value-orientated Managers

Meg Adachi-Sato