The Seventh Joint US-Japan Conference onMathematical Sociology and Rational Choice
Program
Data: August 5th, 2022
Place: Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC), Floor: Level 1, 152
Timeline:
10:00-10:05 Opening Remarks
10:05-10:50 Keynote SpeechPresenter: James A. Kitts (University of Massachusetts)
11:00-12:20 Oral Presentation
1.

João M. Souto Maior (New York University) "Black-White Advanced Enrollment Inequalities
and the Racial Composition of Schools: an Agent-based Modeling Investigation"

2.

Tomohiro Kitamura (Keio University) and Hirohisa Takenoshita (Keio University) "Why Do
Parents Invest on Their Children's Education: Explanation by using Mathematical Model"

3.

Peng Huang (University of California, Irvine) and Carter T. Butts (University of California,Irvine) "Rooted America: Immobility and Segregation of the Inter-county Migration
Networks"

4.

Kazuhiro Kezuka (Tokyo Institute of Technology) "The Puzzle of the Japanese View ofReligion: Modifying Church and Sect Model and Applying ISSP 2018 Data"

13:20-14:20 Poster Sessions
1.

Hiroshi Ishida (University of Tokyo) "Does College Education Promote Social Mobility?
Evaluating College as the Great Equalizer Hypothesis in Japan"

2.

Elizabeth Roberto (Rice University) "Segregation and the built environment: A Novel
Measurement Approach"3.

Teruki Sanada (Doshisha University) "Has Shadow Education Become Popular?"

4.

Yurie Momose (University of Tokyo) "Life Course Study on Adult Health and Social Exclusionin Japan"

5.

Hiroki Takikawa (University of Tokyo) and Zeyu Lyu (University of Tokyo) "Differences in
response to behavior restriction policies under the COVID-19 epidemic in Japan in terms ofgender, age group, and income level of the residence."

6.

Kikuko Nagayoshi (University of Tokyo), Takashi Yoshida (Shizuoka University), andHirohisa Takenoshita (Keio University) "Legitimation of Wage Inequality by Gender in Japan:

Why Japanese Women Accept Wage Gap by Gender?"7.

Selena M. Livas (The University of California, Irvine) "International environmental treaties
from a network perspective"

8.

Loring J. Thomas (University of California, Irvine) and Carter T. Butts (University ofCalifornia, Irvine) "Modelling Endogenous Vertex and Edge Dynamics using ERGM andGeneralized Location Systems"

9.

Carter T. Butts (University of California, Irvine) "Models for Networks with Cross-boundary
Demographic Exchange"

10. Zhemeng Xie (Tohoku University) "Measuring the changes of sociological methods throughword embedding"
14:30-15:50 Oral Presentation 2
1.

Sabrina Mai (University of California, Irvine), Scott L. Renshaw (University of California,Irvine), Carter T. Butts (University of California, Irvine), and Jeannette Sutton (University atAlbany,SUNY)"ChangingTopics:

CausalNarrative

Networksof

COVID-19

Communications"2.

Zeyu Lyu (University of Tokyo) "Analysis of Affective Polarization in Social Media"

3.

Takakuwa Ranka (Tokyo Institute of Technology) ""Menhera" and selfie: from SNS hashtag
analysis"

4.

Scott L. Renshaw (University of California, Irvine), Selena M. Livas (University of California,Irvine), Miruna G. Petrescu-Prahova (University of Washington), and Carter T. Butts(University of California, Irvine), "Modeling Complex Interactions in a Disrupted
Environment: Relational Events in the WTC Response"

15:50-15:55 Best Paper Awards
15:55-16:00 Closing Remarks
Cosponsors:
ASA Section on Rationality and Society, Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, and ASA
Section on Mathematical Sociology, ISA Research Committee on Rational Choice
Co-organizers:
Kikuko Nagayoshi (University of Tokyo), Gianluca Manzo (Sorbonne University), Jun Kobayashi(Seikei University), Richard Edward Gardner (UC Irvine), Kazuhiro Kezuka (Tokyo Institute ofTechnology)