Research and Other Writings

Published Papers

1. Employee Well-being in the Digital Age: Assessing the Impacts of a Smartphone Application in the Workplace,  Economics & Human Biology, (2024).
   (w/ Toshiaki Aizawa, Hiroko Okudaira, Sachiko Kuroda, and Hideo Owan.) [LINK]

2. Working from Home and Productivity Under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Survey Data of Four Manufacturing Firms, PLOS ONE, (2021).
   (w/ Sachiko Kuroda, Hiroko Okudaira, and Hideo Owan.) [LINK]

3. Employee Wellbeing Management and Productivity, Japanese Journal of Labour Studies, (2024). (Written in Japanese)
   (w/ Yuji Kawata, Kohei Takahashi, Hideo Owan, and Sachiko Kuroda.) [LINK] 

Working Papers

1. Middle Managers and Employee Health. RIETI Discussion Paper.
   (w/ Hiroko Okudaira, Toshiaki Aizawa, Sachiko Kuroda, and Hideo Owan.) [LINK]
   Presented at: Organizational Economics Conference (2023, Tokyo), KSWAE (2024, Kyoto)*, Labor Economics Conference (2023, Osaka), COPE (2024, Zurich).

2. Supervisor Accuracy in Subjective Evaluations and Employee Careers.
   (w/ Hayato Kanayama and Yuji Kawata.) [Forthcoming as a RIETI Discussion Paper]
   Presented at: AASLE Annual Conference (2023, Taipei), JEA Annual Meeting (2024, Tokyo)*.
   The previous version of this paper was presented under the title: The Value of Drinking Bosses: Evidence from a Large Manufacturing Company.

3. Affirmative Action, Competitive Intensity, and Effort: Evidence from the Japanese Speedboat Racing.
   (w/ Liya Wang and Takuya Takahashi.) [Forthcoming as a RIETI Discussion Paper]
   Presented at: Personnel Economics Workshop (2024, Tokyo)*.

4. Bait and Switch in the Online Marketplace for Rental Housing.
   (w/ Hayato Kanayama and Takuya Takahashi.)
   Presented at: JEA Annual Meeting (2024, Fukuoka)*, AASLE Annual Conference (2024, Bangkok).

* Presented by coauthors.

Selected Work in Progress

1. What Do Internal Job Postings Do?
   (w/ Guido Friebel, Yuji Kawata, Hideo Owan, Ruo Shangguan, and Kohei Takahashi.)

2. CEO Time Use Survey in Japan.
   (w/ Jusuke Ikegami, Makiko Nakamuro, Hideo Owan, Raffaella Sadun, and Satoshi Tanaka.) [Project Website]

Books

1. Empirical Analysis with R: From Regression Analysis to Causal Inference, 2nd Ed., Ohmsha. (A textbook written in Japanese)
   (w/ Tadao Hoshino and Hisatoshi Tanaka) [LINK] [AMAZON]

Please see the publications and work-in-progress sections in my Curriculum Vitae for more detail.