2013.10.31
Associate Professor Makiko Nakamuro received the International Encouragement Award at the 65th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology. The Japan Society of Educational Sociology is an academic society aimed at the development and dissemination of the sociology of education.
The society holds a research conference every autumn, where general research presentations are given in sessions divided by theme. This time, Associate Professor Nakamuro received the award in recognition of her efforts to actively disseminate the excellent research results of her presented paper outside of Japan in languages other than Japanese.
Comment from Associate Professor Makiko Nakamuro
I have received the International Encouragement Award from the Japan Society of Educational Sociology for the paper "Estimating the Returns to Education Using a Sample of Twins - The Case of Japan-" (RIETI Discussion Paper, 12-E-076), which estimates the returns to education in Japan using large-scale twin data collected with my co-researcher, Professor Tomohiko Inui (Faculty of Economics, Nihon University / RIETI), and methods from the economics of education.
This paper was also featured prominently in the education section of the Asahi Shimbun on January 10, 2013, which suggests a high level of public interest in the question of what the return on education is when considered as an investment. I would like to express my gratitude for the support in creating this paper to the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) project "Economic Analysis of Service Industries: Productivity, Economic Welfare, and Policy Evaluation" and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) "Measurement of Quality and Productivity of Non-Market Services" (Principal Investigator: Professor Takeshi Hiromatsu, Institute of Information Security).