RIETI Faculty Fellow Professor Sagiri Kitao’s co-authored paper wins the 2025 JER Best Article Award

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We are delighted to announce that a paper co-authored by RIETI Faculty Fellow Professor Sagiri Kitao "Medical expenditures over the life-cycle: persistent risks and insurance," has received the prestigious 2025 JER Best Article Award for The Japanese Economic Review (JER).

The Japanese Economic Review is a quarterly academic journal in English published by the Japan Economic Association. The JER Best Article Award honors the author(s) of the most outstanding paper published in the journal in a year.

Related Papers

"Medical Expenditures over the Life Cycle: Persistent Risks and Insurance"
FUKAI Taiyo (University of Tokyo) / ICHIMURA Hidehiko (University of Arizona / University of Tokyo) / KITAO Sagiri (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / MIKOSHIBA Minamo (University of Tokyo)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/21080017.html

"Endogenous Migration and the Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Workers in Japan"
KITAO Sagiri (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / TAKEDA Nozomi (University of Minnesota)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/25110009.html

"Nonlinear Earnings Dynamics and Inequality over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Japanese Municipal Tax Records"
KITAO Sagiri (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI) / SUZUKI Michio (Tohoku University) / YAMADA Tomoaki (Meiji University)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/25080016.html

"Earnings Inequality Analysis Using Administrative Tax Data in Japan"
KITAO Sagiri (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI) / SUZUKI Michio (Tohoku University) / YAMADA Tomoaki (Meiji University)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/25090002.html

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