Rate My Professor Shintaro Yamaguchi

Shintaro Yamaguchi is a Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006, an M.A. in Business and Commerce from Keio University in 2001, and a B.A. in Business and Commerce from Keio University in 1999. Prior to his current position, he served as Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo from 2017 to 2019, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University from 2012 to 2017, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University from 2006 to 2012.

Yamaguchi conducts empirical research in labor economics, family economics, and economics of education, with a focus on how policies shape gender gaps in pay and employment, parental leave, childcare, and child development. His recent work examines the mechanisms through which personnel practices widen the gender pay gap, the effects of workplace culture on fathers’ involvement in childcare, and the long-run consequences of universal early childhood education. He is a Research Fellow at IZA@LISER and an External Research Fellow at CReAM (University College London). Since 2021, he has served as a Private Sector Member of the Cabinet Office Council for Gender Equality. Yamaguchi received the Ishikawa Prize from the Japan Economic Association in 2022, the Nikkei Economic Book Prize in 2021, and the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities in 2019. He has held editorial roles including Co-Editor of the Japanese Economic Review from 2019 to 2022 and Associate Editor of the Japanese Economic Review from 2015 to 2019. Key publications include “Universal Early Childhood Education and Adolescent Risky Behavior” (Journal of Public Economics, 2025), “Effects of Parental Leave Policies on Female Career and Fertility Choices” (Quantitative Economics, 2019), and “Tasks and Heterogeneous Human Capital” (Journal of Labor Economics, 2012).