Daiji Kawaguchi is Dean of Graduate School of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. His research interests are in the field of labor economics. He has written articles on labor demand, labor supply, human capital which appeared in leading economics journals, including Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, and Journal of Money Credit and Banking. He received Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University in 2002. In addition to his position at University of Tokyo, he is Research Associate of Tokyo Center for Economic Research, Research Fellow of IZA, Program Director of Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry. Before joining University of Tokyo faculty in 2016, Kawaguchi was Assistant Professor of Economics at Osaka University (2002-03) and University of Tsukuba (2003-05), and Associate and full Professor at Hitotsubashi University (2005-2016). He has also been Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley (2005-06) and University of California, Irvine (2017-2018).