TANAKA, Ryuichi

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  • Position:
    Associate Professor
  • Degree:
    Ph.D. (Economics), New York University
  Speciality:
  Labor Economics, Development, Applied Econometrics
• Current Research Interests:
  Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics
• Professional Career:

  2011/04 - present	Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
  2006/04 - 2011/03	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  2004/10 - 2006/03	Assistant Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
  2004/06 - 2004/09	21st Century COE Researcher, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University
  2010/10 – 2011/03	Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University

• Selected publications:
  “Are Contingent Jobs Dead Ends or Stepping Stones to Regular Jobs? Evidence from a Structural Estimation,” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel and Ryo Nakajima), forthcoming in Labour Economics
  
  “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)
  
  “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)
  
  

  “Do Childbirth Allowances Matter for Fertility? Evidence from Japanese Health Insurance Data” (joint with Toshiaki Kouno, in Japanese) JCER Economic Journal (Nihon Keizai Kenkyu), Japan Center for Economic Research, 61, 94-108 (2009)
  

• Social contributions:

  2009/04-present	National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Project Member
  2006/04-2008/09	National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Project Member
  2009/04-2011/03	Research Institute of Economy, Trade, & Industry, IAA, Project Member
  2006/04-2009/03	Research Institute of Economy, Trade, & Industry, IAA, Project Member

• e-mail: r-tanaka