Research

Work in Progress

• Gender violence, media reports, and female autonomy in Bangladesh (with Md. Sanaul Haque Mondal)

• Child sex trafficking in Bangladesh (with Naoshi Doi, Md. Sanaul Haque Mondal, and Kenmei Tsubota) 

• Refugees in Bangladesh (with Md. Sanaul Haque Mondal)

• Refugees in Turkey (with Ali Akkemik, Gabriel Fuentes, Charles Horioka, Kohei Imai, and Yoko Niimi)

Working Papers

• Mother’s Late Return Home from Work, Family Relationship, and Non-cognitive Skills of Children: Evidence from Japanese Adolescents, SSRN No. 4098267, (2022), (with Mai Seki and Izumi Yamasaki). Under Review

• Guilt and Antisocial Conformism: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh, MPRA Paper No. 100735, (2020). 

• Disaster Exposure in Childhood and Adult Noncognitive Skill:  Evidence from the Philippines, MPRA Paper No. 112913, (2022), (with June Patrick Roque Bulaon).  Revised and Resubmitted

Refereed Publications 

    Articles in English

• Gendered Effects of Early Childhood Weather Shocks on Locus of Control: Evidence from 28 Agricultural Countries, Journal of Population Economics, 36, 1363–1393 (2023). 

• Intergenerational Spillover Effects of School-Based Disaster Education: Evidence from Indonesia,  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 85, 103505 (2023). (with Yoko Takafuji and Tetsuya Harada).

  • WP version (2022)

• Mobile Health Technology as a Solution to Self-Control Problems: The Behavioral Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in Japan, Social Science and Medicine, 306, 115142 (2022) (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain)

•  Irrigation Infrastructure and Trust: Evidence from Natural and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in Rural Communities, World Development, 156, 105906 (2022) (with Keitaro Aoyagi and Yasuyuki Sawada).

• Variations in Early-Stage Responses to Pandemics: Survey Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan, Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 6, 235–258 (2022) (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) 

  • WP version (2020)

• Cross-Country Evidence on the Role of National Governance in Boosting COVID-19 Vaccination, BMC Public Health, 22, 576 (2022) (with Takeshi Aida).

• Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Children: Survey Evidence from Child Sex Workers in Bangladesh, Journal of Comparative Economics, 50(1), 101-117 (2022). (with Kenmei Tsubota)  [The 3rd Most Downloaded Article as of October 4, 2021] 

  • CSRDA DP version (2021)

  • MPRA WP version (2021)

• Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic, Public Health in Practice, 3, 100225 (2022). (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) 

• Guilt and Prosocial Behavior: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Bangladesh, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 70(2), 823–833 (2022). [Encouragement Award of the 11th Annual Meeting of Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance, Doshisha University, December 2017]

  • WP version (2020)

• Infodemic in social media and social distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic: public good provisions under uncertainty, Global Health Action, 14:1, 1995958 (2021). (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) 

• Prosociality and the Uptake of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Survey Analysis of Intergenerational Differences in Japan, JMIR mHealth uHealth, 9(8), e29923 (2021). (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain)

  • PubMed

  • WP version (2021)

• Social Capital Encourages Disaster Evacuation: Evidence from a Cyclone in Bangladesh, Journal of Development Studies, 57(5), 790-806 (2021)(with Akira Murata)

  • WP version (2018)

• The Bright and Dark Sides of Social Media Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Survey Evidence from Japan, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction,  54, 102034 (2021) (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain). [The 4th Most Downloaded Article as of June 14, 2021] 

• Motives behind Community Participation: Evidence from Natural and Field Experiments in a Developing Country, [Lead Article]  Pacific Economic Review, 25(5), 577-600 (2020) (with Keitaro Aoyagi, Ryuji Kasahara, and Yasuyuki Sawada) 

• Social distancing as a public good under the COVID-19 pandemic, Public Health, 108, 51-53 (2020) (with Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) [Included in Most Downloaded Articles as of January 21, 2021] 

• Formal Education and Disaster Response of Children: Evidence from Coastal Villages in Indonesia, Natural Hazards, 103(2), 2183-2205 (2020) (with Yoko Takafuji and Tetsuya Harada)  

  • WP version (2019)

• Behavioral Impact of Disaster Education: Evidence from a Dance-Based Program in Indonesia, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 45, 101489 (2020), (with Yoko Takafuji and Tetsuya Harada) 

  • WP version (2019)

  • Featured in JICA (2021, p46)

• Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries, Journal of Urban Economics, 113, 103195 (2019), (with Ayako Kondo)

  • WP version (2016)

•  Incentive for Risk Sharing and Trust Formation: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Bangladesh, Oxford Economic Papers, 70(4), 1062–1083 (2018).

  • WP version (2018)

  • Featured by Academic Sequitur

•  Religious Fractionalisation and Crimes in Disaster-Affected Communities: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh, Journal of Development Studies, 54(10), 1891-1911 (2018).

  • WP version (2017)

• The Role of Infrastructure in Mitigating Poverty Dynamics: The Case of an Irrigation Project in Sri Lanka, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 14(3), 1117-1144 (2014), (with Yasuyuki Sawada, Shinya Sugawara, and Naoko Shinkai)

• Modes of Collective Action in Village Economies: Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Field Experiments in a Developing Country, Asian Development Review, 30(1), 31-51 (2013) (with Keitaro Aoyagi, Ryuji Kasahara, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Mika Ueyama).   

• Social Capital Formation and Credit Access: Evidence from Sri Lanka, World Development, 40(12), 2522–2536 (2012) (with Keitaro Aoyagi, Ryuji Kasahara, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Mika Ueyama). 

• Evaluation of Contingent Repayments in Microfinance: Evidence from a Natural Disaster in Bangladesh, The Developing Economies, 50(2), 116-140. (2012)

• Does Contingent Repayment in Microfinance Help the Poor During Natural Disasters? [Lead Article]  Journal of Development Studies, 46(2), 191-210. (2010)  [The Excellent Paper of The Third Applied Econometrics Conference, Osaka Univ. 2008]

• How Do the Poor Cope with Hardships When Mutual Assistance Is Unavailable?, Economics Bulletin, 15(13), 1-17. (2008)

Articles in Japanese

•  「応急仮設住宅における社会的孤立―福島県の事例―」(English Title: "Forced Evacuation and Social Isolation in Fukushima")  Keizai Kenkyu, Hitotsubashi University, 69(1), 55-74 (2018) (with Takayuki Akaike)

  • Supplementary content

  • WP version  (2017) 

• 自然災害被害に対して借り入れは有効に作用するか? -- 南インドにおける津波被災者データの分析から (English Title: Is Credit Access Effective in Mitigating Damages Caused by a Natural Disaster? The Case of Tsunami Victims in Southern India) Keizai Kenkyu, Hitotsubashi University, 62(2), 129-140. (2011) (with Yasuyuki Sawada and Sarath Sanga)

Non-Refereed Publications 

    Books/Book Chapters

• "Challenges in Reducing the Number of Disaster Victims in Bangladesh" (with Akira Murata), in Yasuyuki Sawada, Minhaj Mahmud, and Naohiro Kitano (eds.), Economic and Social Development of Bangladesh: Miracle and Challenges, Palgrave Macmillan (2018)

• 『災害復興とその課題に関する経済学的考察－途上国からの教訓』 (English Title: Economic Considerations in the Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Lessons from Developing Countries), Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute, (2013)

  • Book review by Kazushi Takahashi is published from Ajia Keizai 55(2) 118-121.

• 「経済開発におけるガヴァナンス,」 (with Yasuyuki Sawada), in Masaru Kono (Ed.), 『制度からガヴァナンスへ』(English Title: From Institutions to Governance),  Ch. 4, Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai  (2006)

Articles in Japanese

• 「自然災害に対する途上国家計の脆弱性」 (English Title: Vulnerability to Disaster Risks), 『経済研究 (Keizai Kenkyu, Seijo University)』, Vol. 196, 115-146, (2012).

• 「マイクロファイナンスの経済学－新返済制度を中心とした現状と展望－」 (English Title: A Review of MFIs: The Introduction of New Repayment System), 『経済研究 (Keizai Kenkyu, Seijo University)』, Vol. 186, 89-129, (2009)

• 「慢性的貧困および一時的貧困の削減におけるインフラの役割：国際協力銀行のスリランカ灌漑支援事業のケース,」 (with Yasuyuki Sawada and Shinya Sugawara), 『開発金融研究所報 (Kaihatsu Kinyu Kenkyujo Ho)』, Vol. 32, 7-20, (2006)

• 「貧困削減におけるインフラの役割スリランカ・パキスタンにおけるＪＢＩＣ灌漑事業のインパクト評価,」 (with Yasuyuki Sawada, Naoko Shinkai, Shinya Sugawara, Taro Katsurai), 『開発金融研究所報 (Kaihatsu Kinyu Kenkyujo Ho)』, Vol. 32,  34-69, (2006)