Shingo Nitta
Lecturer, Institute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University
I am a scholar of social inequality, aging, and health, with a special emphasis on Japanese context. My research interests lie in how social inequality changes across the life course, including in old age. I use causal inference and machine learning methods to study the social processes of aging and the mechanisms that generate inequality.
My work is published in Social Science & Medicine and journals in Japanese.
PROFILE
RESEARCH INTEREST
CAREER
- April 2026 – Present: Lecturer, Faculty of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University
- April 2024 – March 2026: JSPS Post-doctral Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University
EDUCATION
- April 2021 – March 2024: Ph.D. in Sociology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
- April 2019 – March 2021: M.A. in Sociology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
- April 2015 – March 2019: B.A., School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University
RESEARCH
PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS
The Moderating Role of Children’s Education to Health Disparity by Social Origin in Japan
NOTES (in Japanese)
Klein, Lisa, Philipp M. Lersch, and Max Longmuir. 2025. “Wealth Inequality among Families in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Evidence from Germany, 1988–2017.”…
Wei, Lai, and Yu Xie. 2025. “Social Mobility as Causal Intervention.” Sociological Methods & Research. doi:10.1177/00491241251320963.