Projects accepted in fiscal 2026

Managerial Human Capital and Postwar Productivity Growth: Evidence from High-Skilled Repatriates Across Firms, Cities, and Industries

Inoue Shizuka(Columbia University)

Aging, Chronic Disease, and Financial Vulnerability: A Comparative Analysis of Japan, China, and South Korea

Akshar Saxena(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

How Gender Norms Determine Marriage, Fertility, and Education Aspirations and Corresponding Outcomes

Teresa Molina(University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Institutional innovation against coordination failure: Evidence from traditional embroidery business in Indonesia

Naila Maya Shofia(National University of Singapore)

The Timing of Parental Return from Work and Child Wellbeing

Oishi Akiko(Chiba University)

Women's labour force participation in India and Japan

Gupta Bishnupriya(University of Warwick)

Agglomeration of firms and establishments in Japan: A quantitative analysis of a spatial heterogeneous-firm model

Takahashi Motoaki(University of Osaka)

Policy and foreign subsidiary behavior

Marie-Ann Betschinger(HEC Montréal)

AI, productivity, and wages in Japan

Fabrizio Pompei(University of Perugia, Italy)

Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data: Evidence from Japan

Dmitri Koustas(University of Chicago)

Determinants of Success and Failure in Urban Recovery: A Spatial Economic Analysis of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Kusumi Tatsuya (University of Tokyo)

Why don't women aspire to become managers?

Okuda Junko(Nagano University)

Industrial Agglomeration and Firm Growth in Developing Countries: The Impact of Knowledge Spillovers on Innovation Incentives

Okamura Soyoka(University of Tokyo)

Societal and Intra-household Gender Inequality and Their Effects on Fertility Behavior: A Comparison Study between China and Russia

Xinxin MA(Hosei University)

Practice of Long Working Hours and Gender Pay Gap in Japan and South Korea

Jiwook Jung(University of Illinois)

The Impact of Export Control Policies and Tariff Wars on Japan's Global and Domestic Production using Micro Level Data

Deseatnicov Ivan(HSE University)

Empirical Analysis of Innovation Strategies in the Sake Industry Using Census Microdata: The Historical Significance of Reviving Traditional Brewing Methods

Sato Jun(University of Niigata Prefecture)

The Causal Mediation of Retirement's Effect on Health: The Role of Family Caregiving in East Asia

Mingjia Xie(Liaoning University)

The Impact of Asymmetric Information Regarding Flood Probability on Real Estate Prices

Tanaka Kazushi(The University of Tokyo)

Noise Pollution in Japan: Evidence from microdata

Sugasawa Takeru(Housing Research and Advancement Foundation of Japan)