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 @)
Recent Updates
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.
02/May/22 "Disaster Exposure in Childhood and Adult Noncognitive Skill: Evidence from the Philippines" (with June Patrick Roque Bulaon) has been uploaded online at MPRA Paper No. 112913.
22/Mar/22 "Irrigation Infrastructure and Trust: Evidence from Natural and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in Rural Communities" (with Keitaro Aoyagi and Yasuyuki Sawada) has been accepted for publication in World Development.
11/Mar/22 "Cross-Country Evidence on the Role of National Governance in Boosting COVID-19 Vaccination" (with Takeshi Aida) has been accepted for publication in BMC Public Health.
08/Jan/22 "Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic" (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) has been accepted for publication in Public Health in Practice.
09/Nov/21 "Variations in Early-Stage Responses to Pandemics: Survey Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan" (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) has been accepted for publication in Economics of Disasters and Climate Change.
17/Oct/21 "Social media infodemics and social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic: public good provisions under uncertainty" (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) has been accepted for publication in Global Health Action.
19/Aug/21 "Prosociality and the Uptake of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Survey Analysis of Intergenerational Differences in Japan," (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) has been published in JMIR ｍHealth uHealth.
08/Jun/21 "Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Children: Survey Evidence from Child Sex Workers in Bangladesh" (with Kenmei Tsubota) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Comparative Economics.
28/Dec/20 "The Bright and Dark Sides of Social Media Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Survey Evidence from Japan," (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
09/Nov/20 "Motives behind Community Participation: Evidence from Natural and Field Experiments in a Developing Country," (with Keitaro Aoyagi, Ryuji Kasahara, and Yasuyuki Sawada) has been accepted for publication in Pacific Economic Review.
05/Aug/20 "Social distancing as a public good under the COVID-19 pandemic," (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) has been accepted for publication in Public Health.
01/Aug/20 "Social Capital Encourages Disaster Evacuation: Evidence from a Cyclone in Bangladesh," (with Akira Murata) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Development Studies.
14/May/20 "Formal Education and Disaster Response of Children: Evidence from Coastal Villages in Indonesia," (with Tetsuya Harada and Yoko Takafuji) has been accepted for publication in Natural Hazards.
01/Apr/20 Joined Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, as an Associate Professor.
21/Mar/20 "Guilt and Prosocial Behavior: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Bangladesh" has been accepted for publication in Economic Development and Cultural Change.
17/Jan/20 "Behavioral Impact of Disaster Education: Evidence from a Dance-Based Program in Indonesia" (with Tetsuya Harada and Yoko Takafuji) has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
25/Sep/19 "Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries" (with Ayako Kondo) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Urban Economics.
A Hindu village in Bangladesh (March 2005)
Training for household survey in Dhaka (December 2011)