Research

Journal Article:

• Building Social Capital with Elders’ Leadership through a Community Hub “Ibasho” in the Philippines and Nepal, Scientific Reports, 2023, Volume 13, Article number: 3652. (Joint with Emi Kiyota, Yasuhiro Tanaka, and Yasuyuki Sawada)

• Democratic Institutions and Social Capital: Experimental Evidence on School-Based Management from a Developing Country,  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, Volume 198, pp. 267–279. (Joint with Yasuyuki Sawada, Andrew S. Griffen, Eiji Kozuka, Haruko Noguchi, and Yasuyuki Todo) [Working Paper]

• Cross-Country Evidence on the Role of National Governance in Boosting COVID-19 Vaccination, BMC Public Health, 2022, Volume 22, Article number: 576. (Joint with Masahiro Shoji)

• Cooperative Norms and Global Deforestation, Applied Economics Letters, 2021, Volume 28, Issue 20, pp.1728–1731.

• Revisiting Suicide Rate during Wartime: Evidence from the Sri Lankan Civil War, PLoS ONE, 2020, 15(10): e0240487. (The 4th Hosoya Prize)

• Social Capital as an Instrument for Common Pool Resource Management: A Case Study of Irrigation Management in Sri Lanka, Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, Volume 71, Issue 4, pp. 952–978. [Working Paper]

• Is Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Effective? The Impact of Training on Technology Adoption and Rice Farming Productivity in Tanzania, World Development, 2018, Volume 105, pp. 336–351. (Joint with Yuko Nakano, Takuji W. Tsusaka, and Valerien O. Pede) [Working Paper] 

• Neighbourhood Effects in Pesticide Use: Evidence from the Rural Philippines, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, Volume 69, Issue 1, pp.163–181. [Working Paper]

• How Access to Irrigation Influences Poverty and Livelihoods: A Case Study from Sri Lanka, Journal of Development Studies, 2014, Volume 50, Issue 5, pp.748–768. (Joint with Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu, Ryuji Kasahara, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Deeptha Wijerathna) [Working Paper] 

Book Chapter:

• [New] Comment: Contemplating the "Third Generation" of Empirical Economic Research, in: Keijiro Otsuka, Takashi Kurosaki, Yasuyuki Sawada, Tetsushi Sonobe (Eds.) Next-Generation of Empirical Research in Economics, pp.25–29, Springer, 2024.

• Integrating Agricultural and Industrial Development, in: Jonna P. Estudillo, Yoko Kijima, and Tetsushi Sonobe (Eds.) Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa: Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka, pp. 305–316, Springer, 2022.

• The Field Experiment Revolution in Development Economics, in: Toshiji Kawagoe and Hirokazu Takizawa (Eds.) Diversity of Experimental Methods in Economics, pp.39–60, Springer, 2019.  (Joint with Yasuyuki Sawada)

Policy Report:

• Ibasho – Strengthening Community-Driven Preparedness and Resilience in Philippines and Nepal by Leveraging Japanese Expertise and Experience, World Bank, 2019. (Joint with Emi Kiyota, Margaret Arnold, and Yasuhiro Tanaka)

Working Paper:

• Conformity of Social Preferences through Regular Interactions: Field Experiments in the Workplace, 2023, SSRN Working Paper. (Joint with Jun Goto and Yasuyuki Sawada)

• Regional Disparities in Subjective Well-Being: A Spatial Econometric Approach, 2020, IDE Discussion Papers No.766.

• Exploring the Relationship between Subjective Well-Being and Objective Poverty Indices: Evidence from Panel Data in South Africa, 2018, IDE Discussion Papers No.707.

• Altruism or Exchange? Experimental Evidence on the Motives behind Private Transfers in Sri Lanka, 2016, JICA-RI Working Paper No.132. (Joint with Yasuyuki Sawada)

• Spatial vs. Social Network Effects in Risk Sharing, 2015, JICA-RI Working Paper No.89. (previously titled "Geographical Network Effects on Risk Sharing in Agrarian Economies: A Spatial Econometric Approach")

• Incentives and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from a Seemingly Inefficient Traditional Labor Contract, 2015, CIRJE-F-961. (Joint with Jun Goto, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Keitaro Aoyagi) 

Work in Progress:

• Does Commitment Savings Alter Seasonal Poverty Dynamics among the Ultra-poor? Evidence from High-frequency Data  (Joint with Kazushi Takahashi, Jun Goto, Yu Ri Kim, Hisaki Kono, Takashi Kurosaki, and Abu S. Shonchoy)

• Deforestation and the Prevalence of Dengue Fever: A Case of Sri Lanka

• Racial Disparity among the Frontline Workers of COVID-19

• How Much Do We Know about Impacts of FDI on Industrial Development in Developing Countries? The Case of the Motorcycle Industry in Thailand (Joint with Keijiro Otsuka, Kohei Mishima, and Chadatan Osatis)

• Do Peers Mitigate Moral Hazard? A Field Experiment in the Philippines (Joint with Jun Goto and Yasuyuki Sawada)

Miscellaneous:

• Declining Suicide Rates during the Sri Lankan Civil War, IDE Research Columns, March 2023.

翻訳:

• ピーター・G・モファット 『経済学のための実験統計学』, 勁草書房, 2018年（川越敏司 監訳, 小川一仁, 佐々木俊一郎, 長江亮, 山根承子と共訳）

日本語記事等:

• [New]  「ラボからフィールドへ―実験による行動開発経済学の進展」日本評論社『経済セミナー』2023年12月・ 2024年1月号

• 「コメント：来たるべき「第三世代」の実証経済学研究を考える」大塚啓二郎・黒崎卓・ 澤田康幸・園部哲史 編著『次世代の実証経済学』, 日本評論社, 2023年

• 「量的調査による開発効果検証：種類と方法」「 量的調査による開発効果検証：事例」大森佐和 ・西村幹子 編『よくわかる開発学』, ミネルヴァ書房, 2022年

•  「貧すれば鋭する？」IDEスクエア『途上国研究の最先端』第60回

• 「【鼎談】再現性の問題にどう向き合うか？」日本評論社『経済セミナー』2022年6・7月号

• 「農業技術普及のメカニズムは「複雑」」IDEスクエア『途上国研究の最先端』第53回

• 「特集「国際開発学2.0―新型コロナとニューノーマル」」国際開発研究, 2021年 30 巻1 号 p. 75-89（誌上シンポジウム）

• 「書評：政策分析と政策立案のあいだ『マンスキー　データ分析と意思決定理論―不確実な世界で政策の未来を予測する―』チャールズ・マンスキー著／奥村綱雄監訳／高遠裕子訳」行動経済学, 2021 年 14 巻 p. 13-15

• 「RCTによる開発経済学研究の来し方行く末」経済セミナー編集部編『[新版] 進化する経済学の実証分析』, 日本評論社, 2020年

• 「安く買って、高く売れ！」IDEスクエア『途上国研究の最先端』第42回

• 「「予想よりも早かった」ノーベル経済学賞」IDEスクエア『世界を見る眼』

• 「インフラ整備と携帯電話」日本農業経済学会編『農業経済学事典』, 丸善出版, 2019年

• 「禁酒にコミットしますか？」IDEスクエア『途上国研究の最先端』第29回

• 「農業技術普及のキーパーソンは「普通の人」」IDEスクエア『途上国研究の最先端』第22回

• 「保険加入率を高めるための発想の転換」IDEスクエア『途上国研究の最先端』第17回

• 「長期志向の起源は農業にあり」IDEスクエア『途上国研究の最先端』第12回

• 「子供支援で希望を育む」IDEスクエア『途上国研究の最先端』第3回

• 「古くて新しいスリランカの灌漑研究」GRIPS新興国の政治と経済 コラム