NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES

YAMAUCHI, Chikako

- Position:
  Assistant Professor
- Degree:
  Ph.D., (Economics), University of California, Los Angeles
Current Research Interests:
(1) Evaluation of a Community-Based Development Program (IDT) in Indonesia,
(2) Study on rural-urban migration in China and Indonesia,
(3) Research on the supply of childcare facilities, maternal labor supply, and children's developmental outcomes in Australia

Professional Career

1996	Summer Intern, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Washington, D.C. Office
1999- 2000	Research Assistant, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office of Japan
2001- 2002	Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Economics, UCLA
2002	Summer Intern, The World Bank
2003- 2004	Research Assistant, Dept. of Public Policy, UCLA
2005	Ph.D. (Economics), University of California, Los Angeles
2005- 2010	Research Fellow, Australian National University
Jan-Sept 2010	Post-doctoral Fellow, GRIPS
Oct 2010-present	Assistant Professor, GRIPS
Jan 2010-present	Adjunct Professor, Australian National University

Selected publications:

Children’s Health and Parental Workforce Participation (forthcoming) Economic Record

Which Children Benefit from Formal Daycare? (2011) Economics of Education Review, 30, 1468-1590 [with Andrew Leigh]

Child Care Availability, Quality and Affordability: Are Local Problems Related to Labour Supply? (2011) Economic Record, 87(276) 109-124 [with Robert Breunig, Xiaodong Gong, and Andrew Weiss]

Community-Based Targeting and Initial Local Conditions: Evidence from Indonesia's IDT Program (2010) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 59(1) 95-148, October

Rural-Urban Migration in Indonesia: Study Design and Implementation (2010) in Chris Manning and Xin Meng ed., The Great Migration: Rural-urban migration in China and Indonesia, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. with Budy P. Resosudarmo and Tadjuddin Effendi

Parental Investment in Children: Differential Pathways for Parental Education and Mental Health (2010) Economic Record 86(273) 210-226.

The Availability of Child Care Centers, Parental Perceived Accessibility and Life Satisfaction (2010) Review of Economics of the Household, 8(2) 231-253.

Can Investment in Household Enterprises Advance Children's Schooling Attendance?: Consequences of Poverty Alleviation Program in Indonesia (2006) in The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs ed., Linking Theory and Practice to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor.

Industry-Specific Productivity and Economic Growth: 1970-98 (2003) with Kyoji Fukao et al., Keizai Bunseki, 170, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office of Japan [in Japanese].
Research Funds:
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Research Funds, 2011 (JPY850,000)
EAcademy of the Social Sciences in Australia International Science Linkages Program, 2010 (A$7,500)
EANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Dean's E-Research and Digital Scholarship Initiative, 2009 (A$22,000)
EANU College of Business and Economics Outreach Funding, 2009 (A$6,000)
EU.S. Department of Labor Grant for Research on Advancing the Campaign against Child Labor, 2005-2006 (US$20,000)
EWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship, 2004 (US$5,000)
Other notable activities:
Referee and review activities
Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Record, International Migration Review, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Women's Studies International Forum, World Development, Australian Agency for International Development (Australian Development Research Awards)
Survey activities
The 2007-2010 Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMICI) Study

Conference organization activities
EWorkshop on New Techniques in Development Economics, June 2008, Canberra
EThe 4th Annual Australian Development Economics Workshop, June 2008, Canberra
EWorkshop on the Economics of Childcare, March 2009, Canberra
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e-mail: c-yamauchi