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Gender wage gap and its effect on test scores of immigrant students
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrant allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418509
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Gender Wage Gap and Its Effect on Test Scores of Immigrant Students
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrant allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129689
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Identity, Nostalgia and Happiness among Migrants: The Case of the Kōshien High School Baseball Tournament in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
residents of large cities and not for other areas. (3) For migrants who had moved from rural to urban areas, the effect of their … significant in cases where the cultural climate of the host area differed from that of the migrant’s home area. The findings of … high school baseball on happiness. Further, nostalgia for home influences migrants’ happiness, and this influence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260877
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Historical education levels and present-day non-cognitive skills
Yamamura, Eiji - 2015
This study examined the extent to which education levels in the 19th century have shaped current norms, which influence individuals' present-day non-cognitive skills and perceptions of life. Cross-country, individual-level data were compared with each country's average years of schooling in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421497
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Gender wage gap and its effect on test scores of immigrant students
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrant allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564937
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Altruistic and selfish motivations of charitable giving: Case of the hometown tax donation system in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji; Tsutsui, Yoshiro; Ohtake, Fumio - 2017
In Japan's hometown tax donation system, people can donate to municipalities where they are not resident and in return receive reciprocal gifts from the local governments of those municipalities. A large part of the donated amount can be deducted from their income and residence taxes. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013671
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Smokers' preference for divorce and extramarital sex
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
It is known that smokers are more impatient than nonsmokers and tend to prefer current benefits. However, smokers' behavior in the marriage market has not as yet been well investigated. In this paper, individual-level data, which consist of over 10,000 observations from Japan, are used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853362
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Historical education levels and present-day non-cognitive skills
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
I examined the extent to which education levels in the 19th century have shaped current norms, which influence individuals' present-day non-cognitive skills and perceptions of life. Cross-country, individual-level data were compared with each country's average years of schooling in 1870. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853370
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Effects of female labor participation on smoking behavior in Japan: Selection model approach
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
Using individual level data (the Japanese General Social Survey), this paper aims to explore how interaction between genders contributes to the cessation of smoking in Japan, where females are distinctly less inclined to smoke than males. Controlling for various socioeconomic factors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853378
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Government size and trust
Yamamura, Eiji - 2010
This paper uses individual level data (the Japanese General Social Survey, 2001) to examine how government size influences generalized trust. After controlling for income inequality, population mobility, city size and various individual characteristics, I found: (1) Using all samples, government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496109