Masahiro Shoji's Website

Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

Email: shoji &at& iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp  (Please replace &at& with @)

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Recent Updates

• 22/Aug/25 presenting "Gender Violence, Media Reports, and Deterioration of Female Autonomy" (with Md. Sanaul Haque Mondal)  at the 13rd World Congress of the Econometric Society.

• 18/Aug/25 presenting "Cost and Demand Effects of Legal Adult Prostitution on Child Sex Trafficking" (with Naoshi Doi, Md. Sanaul Haque Mondal, and Kenmei Tsubota)  at the 13rd World Congress of the Econometric Society.

• 18/Jun/25 "Disaster Exposure in Childhood and Adult Noncognitive Skill:  Evidence from the Philippines" (with June Patrick Roque Bulaon) has been accepted for publication in Japanese Economic Review.

• 8/Apr/25 A new discussion paper titled "Media Reports of Coup d’etat and Democratic Attitude in Neighboring Countries" (with Yu Osaki) has been released on MPRA Paper No. 124284. 

• 13/Dec/24 A new discussion paper titled "Socioeconomic Determinants of Acid Attacks against Women in Bangladesh," (with Md. Sanaul Haque Mondal) has been released on CSRDA Discussion Paper Series, No 111.

• 31/Jul/24 A new discussion paper titled "Gender Violence, Media Reports, and Deterioration of Female Autonomy: Evidence from Acid Attacks," (with Md. Sanaul Haque Mondal) has been released on CSRDA Discussion Paper Series, No 91.

• 01/Apr/23 Received the Fuwa Award at the 2023 JADE (Japanese Association for Development Economics) conference and delivered a lecture entitled "Eradicating Violence against Women."

• 18/Dec/22 "Intergenerational Spillover Effects of School-Based Disaster Education: Evidence from Indonesia"  (with Yoko Takafuji and Tetsuya Harada) has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

• 30/Aug/22 "Gendered Effects of Early Childhood Weather Shocks on Locus of Control: Evidence from 28 Agricultural Countries"  has been accepted for publication in Journal of Population Economics.

• 11/Jun/22 "Mobile Health Technology as a Solution to Self-Control Problems: The Behavioral Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in Japan"  (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) has been accepted for publication in  Social Science and Medicine.