YAMAGUCHI Kazuo
Visiting Fellow
Hanna Holborn Grey Professor & Chair of the Department of Sociology, the University of Chicago
Hanna Holborn Grey Professor & Chair of the Department of Sociology, the University of Chicago
Expertise
1. Quantitative Methodology (Event-History Models and Models for Categorical Data)
2. Work and Family, Work-life Balance
3. Models of Rational/Purposive Social Action
4. Life Course and Occupational Career
5. Social Stratification and Social Inequality
6. Contemporary Japanese Society
7. Social Network, Exchange, and Diffusion
8. Epidemiology of Drug Abuse; Longitudinal Analysis of Drug-Use History
2. Work and Family, Work-life Balance
3. Models of Rational/Purposive Social Action
4. Life Course and Occupational Career
5. Social Stratification and Social Inequality
6. Contemporary Japanese Society
7. Social Network, Exchange, and Diffusion
8. Epidemiology of Drug Abuse; Longitudinal Analysis of Drug-Use History
Education
1981 University of Chicago, Ph.D. in sociology
1979 University of Chicago, MA in sociology
1971 University of Tokyo, BA in mathematics
1979 University of Chicago, MA in sociology
1971 University of Tokyo, BA in mathematics
Experience
2003 Visiting Professor Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2001-02 Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi University
1998- Research Associate Alfred P. Sloan Center for the Study of Work and Family, NORC and the University of Chicago.
1991- Research Associate Population Research Center and Ogburn-Stouffer Center, NORC and the University of Chicago.
1991- Professor Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
1987-91 Associate Professor Department of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles.
1985-87 Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles.
1983-85 Assistant Professor School of Public Health, Columbia University.
1982-85 Research Associate Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University.
1976-78 Labor Statistics Division, Research Department, Statistics Division, Prime Minister's Office
1971-74 Economic Statistics Division, Research Department, Statistics Bureau, Prime Minister's Office
2001-02 Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi University
1998- Research Associate Alfred P. Sloan Center for the Study of Work and Family, NORC and the University of Chicago.
1991- Research Associate Population Research Center and Ogburn-Stouffer Center, NORC and the University of Chicago.
1991- Professor Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
1987-91 Associate Professor Department of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles.
1985-87 Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles.
1983-85 Assistant Professor School of Public Health, Columbia University.
1982-85 Research Associate Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University.
1976-78 Labor Statistics Division, Research Department, Statistics Division, Prime Minister's Office
1971-74 Economic Statistics Division, Research Department, Statistics Bureau, Prime Minister's Office
Selected Publications and Papers
Books
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2008. Diversity; Tales for Life Empowerment (in Japanese)Toyo Keizai Shimpo Publication.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo and Yoshio Higuchi (eds.). 2008. Debates; Work-life Balance in Japan (In Japanese). Nikkei News Publication.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1991. Event History Analysis. Sage Publications
Research Articles
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2008. "Strategies for Elimination of Gender Inequality in Wages: Theoretical and Empirical Bases for the Irrationality of Statistical Discrimination." The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies 50:40-68.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo, 2007. "Marital Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance" (in Japanese) Japanese Journal of Research on Household Economics 73: 50-60.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2006. "Rationality of Tolerance: An Insight into the Parent-Child Relationship." Rationality and Society 18: 275-303.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2005. "The Declining Fertility Rate at the Below-Replacement Level: Determinants and Countermeasures - The Roles of Husbands, Workplaces, the Government, and Society." (In Japanese） Japanese Journal of Household Economics 66: 57-67.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2003. "The Difficulty of Social Research from an American Research Perspective (In Japanese)." Japanese Review of Sociology 53(4): 552-565.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo and Yantao Wang. 2002. "Class Identification of Married Employed Women and Men in America." American Journal of Sociology 102: 440-475.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2001-02. "Event History Analysis (1)-(5) (In Japanese)" Statistics 52(9)-53(6)
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2000. "Multinomial Logit Latent-Class Regression Models: An Analysis of the Predictors of Gender-Role Attitudes among Japanese Women." American Journal of Sociology 105: 1702-40.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2000. "Rationality of Initiators and Rationality of Threshold-Based Behavior of Followers in Collective Action: Insight from Non-Expected Utility Models." Rationality and Society 12:185-225.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1999. "Gender-Role Attitudes of Married Women and Social Stratification: A Japan-US Comparison (In Japanese)." Japanese Sociological Review 50: 231-51.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1998. "Rational-Choice Theories of Anticipatory Socialization and Anticipatory Nonsocialization." Rationality and Society 10: 163-99. This paper is included in Central Currents in Social Theory: Contemporary Sociological Theory 1920-2000, edited by Raymond Boudon and Mohamed Cherkaoiu. London: Sage.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1996. "Power in the Network of Substitutable/Complementary Exchange Relations: A Rational-Choice Model and an Analysis of Power Centralization." American Sociological Review 61: 308-32.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo and Linda Ferguson. 1995. "The Stopping and Spacing of Childbirths and Their Birth-History Predictors: Rational-Choice Theory and Event-History Analysis." American Sociological Review 60: 272-98.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1992. "Accelerated Failure-Time Regression Models with a Regression Model of Surviving Fraction: An Application to the Analysis of 'Permanent Employment' in Japan." Journal of the American Statistical Association 87: 284-292.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1990. "Homophily and Social Distance in the Choice of Multiple Friends: An Analysis Based on Conditionally Symmetric Log-Bilinear Association Models" Journal of the American Statistical Association 85:356-366.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2008. Diversity; Tales for Life Empowerment (in Japanese)Toyo Keizai Shimpo Publication.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo and Yoshio Higuchi (eds.). 2008. Debates; Work-life Balance in Japan (In Japanese). Nikkei News Publication.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1991. Event History Analysis. Sage Publications
Research Articles
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2008. "Strategies for Elimination of Gender Inequality in Wages: Theoretical and Empirical Bases for the Irrationality of Statistical Discrimination." The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies 50:40-68.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo, 2007. "Marital Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance" (in Japanese) Japanese Journal of Research on Household Economics 73: 50-60.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2006. "Rationality of Tolerance: An Insight into the Parent-Child Relationship." Rationality and Society 18: 275-303.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2005. "The Declining Fertility Rate at the Below-Replacement Level: Determinants and Countermeasures - The Roles of Husbands, Workplaces, the Government, and Society." (In Japanese） Japanese Journal of Household Economics 66: 57-67.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2003. "The Difficulty of Social Research from an American Research Perspective (In Japanese)." Japanese Review of Sociology 53(4): 552-565.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo and Yantao Wang. 2002. "Class Identification of Married Employed Women and Men in America." American Journal of Sociology 102: 440-475.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2001-02. "Event History Analysis (1)-(5) (In Japanese)" Statistics 52(9)-53(6)
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2000. "Multinomial Logit Latent-Class Regression Models: An Analysis of the Predictors of Gender-Role Attitudes among Japanese Women." American Journal of Sociology 105: 1702-40.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2000. "Rationality of Initiators and Rationality of Threshold-Based Behavior of Followers in Collective Action: Insight from Non-Expected Utility Models." Rationality and Society 12:185-225.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1999. "Gender-Role Attitudes of Married Women and Social Stratification: A Japan-US Comparison (In Japanese)." Japanese Sociological Review 50: 231-51.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1998. "Rational-Choice Theories of Anticipatory Socialization and Anticipatory Nonsocialization." Rationality and Society 10: 163-99. This paper is included in Central Currents in Social Theory: Contemporary Sociological Theory 1920-2000, edited by Raymond Boudon and Mohamed Cherkaoiu. London: Sage.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1996. "Power in the Network of Substitutable/Complementary Exchange Relations: A Rational-Choice Model and an Analysis of Power Centralization." American Sociological Review 61: 308-32.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo and Linda Ferguson. 1995. "The Stopping and Spacing of Childbirths and Their Birth-History Predictors: Rational-Choice Theory and Event-History Analysis." American Sociological Review 60: 272-98.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1992. "Accelerated Failure-Time Regression Models with a Regression Model of Surviving Fraction: An Application to the Analysis of 'Permanent Employment' in Japan." Journal of the American Statistical Association 87: 284-292.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1990. "Homophily and Social Distance in the Choice of Multiple Friends: An Analysis Based on Conditionally Symmetric Log-Bilinear Association Models" Journal of the American Statistical Association 85:356-366.
Others
Current Editorial Board Membership: American Journal of Sociology; British Journal of Sociology; Sociological Methodology; Rationality and Society
Regular Review-Panel Member, Biostatistical Method and Research Design (BMRD) Section, National Institute of Health, 2005-present
Regular Review-Panel Member, Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (SSM) Section of the Social and Behavioral Science, National Science Foundation 2002-2004.
2003 ISI's (Institute for Scientific Information) list of 250 most highly-cited scientists during years 1981-1999 in Social Sciences, General category.
2001 Guggenheim Fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
2001 Social Science Research Council and Japan Foundation, Abe Fellowship
1998 Isaac and Viola H. Stern Endowment Fund Research Grant Award, The University of Chicago.
1992- Elected Member. Sociological Research Association (Honor Society).
1984 Susan Colver Rosenberger Prize, from the University of Chicago, for doctoral dissertation which is "constructive and original in sociology."
Regular Review-Panel Member, Biostatistical Method and Research Design (BMRD) Section, National Institute of Health, 2005-present
Regular Review-Panel Member, Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (SSM) Section of the Social and Behavioral Science, National Science Foundation 2002-2004.
2003 ISI's (Institute for Scientific Information) list of 250 most highly-cited scientists during years 1981-1999 in Social Sciences, General category.
2001 Guggenheim Fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
2001 Social Science Research Council and Japan Foundation, Abe Fellowship
1998 Isaac and Viola H. Stern Endowment Fund Research Grant Award, The University of Chicago.
1992- Elected Member. Sociological Research Association (Honor Society).
1984 Susan Colver Rosenberger Prize, from the University of Chicago, for doctoral dissertation which is "constructive and original in sociology."
