Yoko Niimi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6045483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoko Niimi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Niimi |
| SIGNATURE | NIIMI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Doshisha University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3293-3636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Are Married Women Really Wealthier Than Unmarried Women? Evidence From Japan
Using microdata from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, this article examines the relationship between marriage and wealth among women. By exploiting unique data on personal wealth, it also assesses whether the wealth effect of marriage differs depending on whether wealth is measured as household or personal wealth, an issue that very few studies have examined. When wealth is measured as equivalized household net worth, on the assumption tha…
Was the expansion of housing credit in Japan good or bad
This paper shows, using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, that housing credit has become increasingly available over time in Japan, especially since 2000, and that this has made it easier for Japanese households to purchase housing and enabled them to do so at an earlier age. However, it also shows that the greater availability of housing credit has increased households’ housing loan repayment burden, which has resulted in their…
Do borrowing constraints matter for intergenerational educational mobility? Evidence from Japan
This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment using microdata for Japan. By exploiting unique information on whether children have ever given up schooling for financial reasons and, if they have, which level of schooling they have forgone, it assesses the role of borrowing constraints in determining intergenerational educational mobility in a more direct manner than previous attempts. Despite a steady increase i…
Public and private investment in human capital and intergenerational transfers in Asia
Investments in human capital (education) are as important as investments in physical capital (plant and equipment, housing and infrastructure) in bringing about economic growth and development. At
Determinants Of Remittances
This paper examines the determinants of remittance behavior for Vietnam using data from the 2004 Vietnam Migration Survey on internal migrants. It considers how, among other things, the vulnerability of a migrant's life at the destination, their link to relatives back home, and the time spent at the destination affect remittances. The paper finds that migrants act as risk-averse economic agents and send remittances back to the household of origin…
Remittances and Development
Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is at the top of the ranking of remittance receiving regions in the world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittance patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing ev…
Do Regional Trade Pacts Benefit the Poor? An Illustration from Dominican Republic—Central American Free Trade Agreement in Nicaragua
Migration And Remittances
The paper empirically examines the determinants of remittance flows at the cross-country level. It considers, among other things, the significance of the level of migration, the education level of migrants and financial sector development in determining remittances. Given the potential endogeneity problems, the migration and financial development variables are instrumented in the estimation. The migration level is found to be the main driver of r…
Storm in a rice bowl
This paper analyses the poverty impact of Vietnam’s reforms, especially with reference to the rice economy, during the 1990s. It reviews trade and institutional reforms that directly impinged on the rice sector, and the trends in rice production, consumption and prices throughout the 1990s. We then analyse the impact of rice production on poverty dynamics by estimating a multinomial logit model based on a panel of 4, 302 households. Our results s…
Storm in a rice bowl
This paper analyses the poverty impact of Vietnam’s reforms, especially with reference to the rice economy, during the 1990s. It reviews trade and institutional reforms that directly impinged on the rice sector, and the trends in rice production, consumption and prices throughout the 1990s. We then analyse the impact of rice production on poverty dynamics by estimating a multinomial logit model based on a panel of 4, 302 households. Our results s…
Are Married Women Really Wealthier Than Unmarried Women? Evidence From Japan
Using microdata from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, this article examines the relationship between marriage and wealth among women. By exploiting unique data on personal wealth, it also assesses whether the wealth effect of marriage differs depending on whether wealth is measured as household or personal wealth, an issue that very few studies have examined. When wealth is measured as equivalized household net worth, on the assumption tha…
Storm in a rice bowl
This paper analyses the poverty impact of Vietnam’s reforms, especially with reference to the rice economy, during the 1990s. It reviews trade and institutional reforms that directly impinged on the rice sector, and the trends in rice production, consumption and prices throughout the 1990s. We then analyse the impact of rice production on poverty dynamics by estimating a multinomial logit model based on a panel of 4, 302 households. Our results s…
Migration And Remittances
The paper empirically examines the determinants of remittance flows at the cross-country level. It considers, among other things, the significance of the level of migration, the education level of migrants and financial sector development in determining remittances. Given the potential endogeneity problems, the migration and financial development variables are instrumented in the estimation. The migration level is found to be the main driver of r…
Determinants Of Remittances
This paper examines the determinants of remittance behavior for Vietnam using data from the 2004 Vietnam Migration Survey on internal migrants. It considers how, among other things, the vulnerability of a migrant's life at the destination, their link to relatives back home, and the time spent at the destination affect remittances. The paper finds that migrants act as risk-averse economic agents and send remittances back to the household of origin…
Remittances and Development
Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is at the top of the ranking of remittance receiving regions in the world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittance patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing ev…
Do Regional Trade Pacts Benefit the Poor? An Illustration from Dominican Republic—Central American Free Trade Agreement in Nicaragua
Do borrowing constraints matter for intergenerational educational mobility? Evidence from Japan
This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment using microdata for Japan. By exploiting unique information on whether children have ever given up schooling for financial reasons and, if they have, which level of schooling they have forgone, it assesses the role of borrowing constraints in determining intergenerational educational mobility in a more direct manner than previous attempts. Despite a steady increase i…
Public and private investment in human capital and intergenerational transfers in Asia
Investments in human capital (education) are as important as investments in physical capital (plant and equipment, housing and infrastructure) in bringing about economic growth and development. At
Was the expansion of housing credit in Japan good or bad
This paper shows, using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, that housing credit has become increasingly available over time in Japan, especially since 2000, and that this has made it easier for Japanese households to purchase housing and enabled them to do so at an earlier age. However, it also shows that the greater availability of housing credit has increased households’ housing loan repayment burden, which has resulted in their…
Are Married Women Really Wealthier Than Unmarried Women? Evidence From Japan
Using microdata from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, this article examines the relationship between marriage and wealth among women. By exploiting unique data on personal wealth, it also assesses whether the wealth effect of marriage differs depending on whether wealth is measured as household or personal wealth, an issue that very few studies have examined. When wealth is measured as equivalized household net worth, on the assumption tha…
Economics (9 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Census (2 works)