MIYAZAWA Kazutoshi
Faculty of Economics Department of Economics
Professor
Last Updated :2025/05/19

Researcher Profile and Settings

      Research funding number

      00329749

    Research Areas

    • Humanities & social sciences / Economic policy
    • Humanities & social sciences / Public economics, labor economics
    • Humanities & social sciences / Theoretical economics

    Research History

    • 2003.9-2004.8 Research Scholar, Department of Economics, LSE
    • 2004.9-2005.2 Research Affiliate, STICERD, LSE

    Research Experience

    • Doshisha University, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 2009/04 - Today
    • Doshisha University, Faculty of Economics, Associate Professor, 2007/04 - 2009/03
    • Nanzan University, Faculty of Economics, Associate Professor, 2002/04 - 2007/03
    • Nanzan University, Faculty of Economics, Assistant Professor, 2000/04 - 2002/03

    Education

    • Nagoya University, Graduate School of Economics, 1997/04 - 2000/03
    • Nagoya University, Graduate School of Economics, 1995/04 - 1997/03
    • Nagoya University, School of Science, Mathematics, 1982/04 - 1986/03

    Association Memberships

    • Japanese Economic Association
    • American Economic Association
    • International Institute of Public Finance
    • Japan Institute of Public Finance
    • Japan Association for Applied Economics

    Awards

    • 2019 Association Awards
      Nov. 2020, Japan Association for Applied Economics

    Published Papers

    • Elderly Empowerment, Fertility, and Public Pensions
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      International Tax and Public Finance, 28(4) 941 - 964, Jul. 2021, Scientific journal
    • Inequality and Conditionality in Cash Transfers: Demographic Transition and Economic Development
      Koji Kitaura; Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Economic Modelling, 94 276 - 287, Jan. 2021, Scientific journal
    • Capital Market Integration and Fiscal Sustainability
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa; Hikaru Ogawa; Toshiki Tamai
      European Economic Review, 120(103305) 1 - 20, Nov. 2019, Scientific journal
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    • Grandparental Child Care, Child Allowances, and Fertility
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Journal of the Economics of Ageing, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 7 53 - 60, Apr. 2016, Scientific journal
      DOI URL
    • Old Age Support In Kind
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      JOURNAL OF PENSION ECONOMICS & FINANCE, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 9(3) 445 - 472, Jul. 2010, Scientific journal
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    • Sibling Rivalry and Strategic Parental Transfers: A Comment
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, UNIV NORTH CAROLINA, 73(2) 546 - 547, Oct. 2006, Scientific journal
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    • Growth and Inequality: A Demographic Explanation
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS, SPRINGER, 19(3) 559 - 578, Jul. 2006, Scientific journal
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    • Simple Criteria for Growth-Enhancing Social Security Systems
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      FinanzArchiv, 60(1) 42 - 62, 2004, Scientific journal
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    • Private versus Public Financing of Education and Endogenous Growth: A Comment on Brauninger and Vidal
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Journal of Population Economics, SPRINGER-VERLAG, 16(2) 395 - 396, May 2003, Scientific journal
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    • Public Pensions and Take-off
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2(1) 25 - 39, Mar. 2003, Scientific journal
    • Incentives and Product Variety in an Aging Economy
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      INTERNATIONAL TAX AND PUBLIC FINANCE, KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, 8(4) 595 - 607, Aug. 2001, Scientific journal
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    • Is Public Long-Term Care Insurance Necessary?
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa; Panos Moudoukoutas; Tadashi Yagi
      Journal of Risk and Insurance, 67(2) 249 - 264, Jun. 2000, Scientific journal

    MISC

    • College Tuition and Wage Polarization
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Doshisha University Economic Review, 75(2,3) 153 - 175, Dec. 2023
    • Higher education, performance pay, and the polarization of wages
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      ERC Discussion Paper, E21-8 1 - 13, Sep. 2021, Report research institution
    • Higher education and the polarization of wages
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Working Paper Series, Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, 59 1 - 9, Sep. 2021, Report research institution
    • Urbanization and political redistribution
      Tatsuaki Kuroda; Kazutoshi Miyazawa; Tohru Naito
      Working Paper Series, Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, 58 1 - 18, Apr. 2021, Report research institution
    • Wealth inequality and conditionality in cash transfers: A politico-economic approach
      Koji Kitaura; Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      ICES Working Paper, 215 1 - 36, Nov. 2019
    • Public health and public debt: A dynamic politico-economic analysis
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Doshisha University Economic Review, 70(4) 233 - 258, Mar. 2019, Report research institution
    • Tax competition and fiscal sustainability
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa; Hikaru Ogawa; Toshiki Tamai
      CIRJE Discussion Paper F series, CIRJE-F-1103 1 - 27, Dec. 2018
    • Beyond the scope of politicians: A growth effect on intergenerational redistribution policies in a probabilistic voting model
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Center for the Study of the Creative Economy DP, 2017-03 1 - 16, Mar. 2017
    • Public debt management for the sustainability of public finance, economic growth, and population
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Okuno, Yagi, Ogawa eds., Considering Contemporary Japan: A View of Public Economics, Chuokeizai-sha, 31 - 46, Feb. 2017
    • Inequality and conditionality in cash transfer: Demographic transition and economic development
      Koji Kitaura; Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Center for the Study of the Creative Economy DP, 2015-03 1 - 29, 2016
    • Childcare production, technological complementarity, and fertility dynamics
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Doshisha University Economic Review, 67(3) 17 - 35, 2015, Report research institution
    • Earnings distribution and economic growth
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Doshisha University Economic Review, 65(4) 157 - 191, 2014, Report research institution
    • Self-control, fertility, and capital accumulation
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Doshisha University Economic Review, Doshisha University, 64(3) 269 - 285, 2013, Report research institution
      DOI URL
    • Population aging and political redistribution: A theory of the social rivalry effect
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Tanaka and Konishi eds., Seiji-Keizaigaku no Shin-Choryu, Keiso Shobo, 119 - 138, Mar. 2012
    • Preferences for redistribution in an aging economy
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Life Risk Research Center DP, 2010-05 1 - 29, 2011, Report research institution
    • Healthy life expectancy, dynamic efficiency, and a Pareto-improving subsidy for long-term care
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Life Risk Research Center DP, 2011-01 1 - 20, 2011, Report research institution
    • Live longer, work longer: A positive role of public pensions in a service economy
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Life Risk Research Center DP, 2010-04 1 - 26, 2010, Report research institution
    • Does population aging promote economic growth?
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Life Risk Research Center DP, 2009-04 1 - 19, 2009, Report research institution
    • Social security reform: Do old people vote against pension reduction?
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Doshisha University Economic Review, 59(4) 51 - 84, 2008, Report research institution
    • Railway competition in a park-and-ride system
      Tatsuaki Kuroda; Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Asada and Ishikawa eds., Time and Space in Economics, Springer, 265 - 281, 2007
      DOI URL

    Books etc

    • Public Finance
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa; Akira Yakita
      Shinsei-sha, Sep. 2019

    Presentations

    • College Completion Rates, Tuitions, and Wage Polarization
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Japan Association for Applied Economics, 10 Jun. 2023
    • Higher Education, Performance Pay, and the Polarization of Wages
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Japan Association for Applied Economics, 14 Nov. 2021, Oral presentation
    • Elderly Empowerment, Fertility, and Public Pensions
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Japan Association for Applied Economics, 22 Nov. 2020, Invited oral presentation
    • Urbanization and Political Redistribution
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Japan Association for Applied Economics, 20 Jun. 2020, Oral presentation
    • Tax Competition and Fiscal Sustainability
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      International Institute of Public Finance, 23 Aug. 2019, Oral presentation, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    • Elderly Empowerment, Fertility, and Public Pensions
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Association for Public Economic Theory, 11 Jul. 2019, Oral presentation, Strasbourg, France
    • Beyond the Scope of Politicians: A Growth Effect on Intergenerational Redistribution Policies in a Probabilistic Voting Model
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      International Institute of Public Finance, 21 Aug. 2018, Oral presentation
    • Beyond the Scope of Politicians: A Growth Effect on Intergenerational Redistribution Policies in a Probabilistic Voting Model
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Western Economic Association International, 13 Jan. 2018, Oral presentation
    • Beyond the Scope of Politicians: A Growth Effect on Intergenerational Redistribution Policies in a Probabilistic Voting Model
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Japan Association for Applied Economics, 29 Oct. 2017, Oral presentation
    • Debt Management Reverses the Trend of Fertility Decline
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Association for Public Economic Theory, 11 Jul. 2017, Oral presentation
    • Public Debt Management Reverses the Trend of Fertility Decline
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Japan Association for Applied Economics, 15 Nov. 2015, Invited oral presentation
    • Grandparental Child Care, Child Allowances, and Fertility
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      International Institute of Public Finance, 21 Aug. 2015, Oral presentation
    • Grandparental Child Care, Child Allowances, and Fertility
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Western Economic Association International, 01 Jul. 2015, Oral presentation
    • A Debt Management Rule, Fertility, and Growth
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Western Economic Association International, 09 Jan. 2015, Oral presentation
    • Grandparental Child Care, Child Allowances, and Fertility
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Japan Association for Applied Economics, 16 Nov. 2014, Oral presentation
    • A Debt Management Rule, Fertility, and Growth
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      International Institute of Public Finance, 22 Aug. 2014, Oral presentation
    • Sibling Rivalry and Fertility Dynamics in the Gift Economy
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Applied Regional Science Conference, 18 Nov. 2012, Oral presentation
    • Healthy Life Expectancy, Dynamic Efficiency, and a Pareto-improving Subsidy for Long-term Care
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      International Institute of Public Finance, 16 Aug. 2012, Oral presentation
    • Healthy Life Expectancy, Dynamic Efficiency, and a Pareto-improving Subsidy for Long-term Care
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Applied Regional Science Conference, 04 Dec. 2011, Oral presentation
    • Healthy Life Expectancy, Dynamic Efficiency, and a Pareto-improving Subsidy for Long-term Care
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Japan Association for Applied Economics, 26 Jun. 2011, Oral presentation
    • Live Longer, Work Longer: A Positive Role of Public Pensions in a Service Economy
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Applied Regional Science Conference, 04 Dec. 2010, Oral presentation
    • Does Population Aging Promote Economic Growth?
      Kazutoshi Miyazawa
      Japanese Economic Association, 11 Oct. 2009, Invited oral presentation