Yamaguchi Kazuo

Kazuo Yamaguchi, born in Tokyo in 1946, is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and was Hanna Holborn Gray Professor there in 2005-2013. He obtained B.S. in mathematics at the University of Tokyo and M.A and Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago. He taught at the UCLA and Colombia University before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1991. He published more than 100 research articles in sociology and statistics, and his recent book publications include Gender Inequalities in the Japanese Workplace and Employment (from Springer 2019), whose original Japanese version published in 2017 got the Nikkei Economic Book Culture Award. He was a recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001, and was identified in 2003 by the Institute of Scientific Information as one of the most frequently cited scholars in the social sciences during 1980-2000. He also authored a book of sociological fantasy novel, entitled Diversity, which was published in Japanese in 2008, and subsequently translated and published in Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. Yamaguchi is interested in statistical models for social data, rational choice theory, social stratification and inequality, labor markets and employment, and gender inequality and low fertility in Japan and Korea.