Yas Motoyama
@yasmotoyama.bsky.social
@ Ohio State University. Believing that academics must generate knowledge useful for academics and non-academics to make this society better.
The gender wage gap comes partly from differences in education & occupation, but also from regional factors: Some regions have more equal pays; other regions have more wage gaps. My former student, Xinyun Jiang, and I had a few more findings in Local Economy:
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The gender wage gap reevaluated: A regional perspective - Xinyun Jiang, Yasuyuki Motoyama, 2025
Over the past decades, the gender wage gap has been observed to fall due to women’s better performance in higher education as well as rising labor force partici...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The gender wage gap comes partly from differences in education & occupation, but also from regional factors: Some regions have more equal pays; other regions have more wage gaps. My former student, Xinyun Jiang, and I had a few more findings in Local Economy:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
It is more exciting when I could publish with my (former) student! Shan Yang and I examined business closures after the COVID particularly in minority neighborhoods. It was not a simple answer like minority = poor = more closures:
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How Much Were Minority Neighborhoods in the United States Affected During COVID-19 in the Aspect of Business Closure Rates? Evidence From Six Metropolitan Areas - Shan Yang, Yasuyuki (Yas) Motoyama, 2...
This study evaluates business closure rates in minority neighborhoods within a metropolitan area and extends this analysis across six U.S. metropolitan areas du...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
It is more exciting when I could publish with my (former) student! Shan Yang and I examined business closures after the COVID particularly in minority neighborhoods. It was not a simple answer like minority = poor = more closures:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
It is worth experimenting in many other cities.
As simple as: Free bus => Bus ride up => Car ride down
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
As simple as: Free bus => Bus ride up => Car ride down
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It is worth experimenting in many other cities.
As simple as: Free bus => Bus ride up => Car ride down
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
As simple as: Free bus => Bus ride up => Car ride down
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
It's easy to guess that people visit healthcare facilities close to you. Does the same pattern apply to poor and people without health insurance?
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Spatial Heterogeneities in Healthcare Visits and their Socioeconomic Determinants: A Comprehensive Analysis Using Traffic Flow Data - Armita Kar, Yasuyuki Motoyama, 2025
Spatial accessibility to healthcare is widely studied across various disciplines, primarily to identify underserved neighborhoods. Whereas most studies focus on...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It's easy to guess that people visit healthcare facilities close to you. Does the same pattern apply to poor and people without health insurance?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...