Education

March 1996	B.A. Foreign Language, Osaka University of Foreign Studies
March 1998	M.A. Economics, Nagoya University
March 2004	Ph.D. Economics, Nagoya University

Career

April 2007	Researcher out of Institution, National Institution of Population and Social Security Research
October 2008	Fellow, Nagoya University
April 2009	Joined National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)
April 2010-present	Senior Researcher

Memberships of academic societies/ Lectureships

Japanese Economic Association, Japan Institute of Public Finance, Population Association of Japan, The Japan Public Choice Society, The Japan Society of Household Economics.
Instructor, Yokkaichi University

Major Publications

(Paper)

• "Costs orn a Child, Length of Education, and Accumulation of Human capital," Economic Science, 2003.
• "Public Pension and Child Allowance –Analysis in an Overlapping Generation Model with Endogenous Fertility," The quarterly of social security research, 2008 (with Toshiyuki Uemura [Toyo University]) (in Japanese).
• "The Management of Public Pension and Economic Effects of Child Allowance -The Comparison between the Fixed Premium and the Fixed Benefits Pension System-," Zaisei-Kenkyu, 2008 (with Toshiyuki Uemura [Kansaigakuin University]) (in Japanese).

(Note)

• "Learning Ability and Productivity in a Signaling Model", Journal of Personal Finance and Economics, 2008 (in Japanese).
• "Is it beneficial for households without children to subsidy the cost of rearing children to increase pension benefits?" Economics Bulletin, 2008.

NIRA Reports

• "Estimates of Labor Productivity from the Perspective of Age Gropus" in Is the Aging of Sociology a Threat to Japan? : Increasing Productivity in the Next Decade is the Key (NIRA Report), National Institute for Research Advancement, 2009, pp.72-87