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Job Market Paper

gThe Impact of the Introduction of Sectoral Minimum Wage on Low Wage Markets in a Low Income Country: Evidence from South Africah 2007

Publication (non-refereed)

gJapan's ODA and Poverty Reduction: A Cross-Donor Comparison and a Case Study of Malaysiah (with Yasuyuki Sawada), 2003, in Asian Development Experience Vol1: External Factors for Asian Development. (eds. Hirohisa Kohama), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.

Working Papers

gIs Aid Allocation Consistent with Global Poverty Reduction? A Cross-Donor Comparison.h (with Yasuyuki Sawada and Takashi Kurosaki), 2006.

gCausal Effects of Sex Preference on Sex-Blind and Sex-Selective Child Avoidance and Substitution across Birth Years: Evidence from the Japanese Year of the Horse.h (with Christopher Rohlfs and Alexander Reed), 2007, submitted.

gDecomposing the Racial Wage Gap Between Africans and Whites in South Africa After the Collapse of Apartheid: The Decline of "White Premiumh, 2007

gAbsenteeism among Health Workers in Lao PDR: Is the Low Rate an Exception?h (with Xubei Luo and Yasuyuki Sawada) 2007

gWhy isnft my salary paid on time? What should I do without what I am supposed to receive (although insufficient)? : Salary delivery delay, insufficiency and their impact on teachers and health workers in Lao PDRh (with Xubei Luo and Yasuyuki Sawada) 2007

gIs it bad luck to be born in the Year of Fire Horse in Japan?h, 2007, submitted

gThe Determinants of Duration of Temporal Migration in Thailand: Competing Risk Approachh, 2005

Work in Progress

gSharing Wage Riskh (with Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Robert Townsend)

gRational Public Health Delivery Decision under Human Resource and Financial Constraints in Lao PDRh