Chiaki Moriguchi is a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) during the 2014–15 academic year. She joins APARC from Hitotsubashi University’s Institute of Economic Research in Tokyo, where she serves as a professor. She was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and Northwestern University prior to joining Hitotsubashi University. Her main research fields are economic history and comparative institutional analysis. Her research interests include comparative analysis of child adoption in the U.S. Japan, and Korea; comparative analysis of state capacity in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan; the long-run evolution of income inequality in Japan; the economic impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake; and the comparative historical analysis of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan. During her visit at APARC, she will conduct research on educational outcomes of adopted children in the U.S. and on income and wealth inequality in Japan. Chiaki has published her work in the Journal of Economic Growth, Review of Economics and Statistics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Economic History, and other academic journals. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History. She received the 2011 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize. She is also a commentator and contributor to the Japanese media, including NHK, Nikkei, Asahi, and Mainichi. Chiaki received a PhD in economics from Stanford University and an MA in economics from Osaka University, Japan.