Papers
Peer-reviewed Publication (all open access)
1. "Early Childhood Education and Care: Effects After Half a Century and their Mechanisms." Journal of Population Economics (2023).
(Originally Master Thesis at the University of Tokyo, previously circulated under the title "Revealing the Hidden Mechanism: The Effects of Early Childhood Education and Care After Half a Century.")
The published article and the latest working paper (SSRN website).
2. "Haste Makes No Waste: Peer Effects of a Speed Competition on Math Score" (with Minhaj Mahmud, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Mai Seki). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2023).
The published article and the working paper (Center for Research and Education in Program Evaluation, University of Tokyo website).
3. "Fighting the Learning Crisis in Developing Countries: A Randomized Experiment of Self-Learning at the Right Level" (with Yasuyuki Sawada, Minhaj Mahmud, and Mai Seki). Economic Development and Cultural Change (2024).
The published article, the working paper version (Center for Research and Education in Program Evaluation, University of Tokyo website), and the replication package.
(The previous title was "Individualized Self-learning Program to Improve Primary Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh.")
Working Paper
1. "Social Learning in Budget Formulation: A Case of Adaptation to Disasters" (2023, with Kei Ikegami), Working Paper (SSRN website).
(The previous title was "Somebody Else's Problem: Which Information Drives (or Does Not Drive) Policy Changes.")
2. "Still Biased? A Remaining Classical Selection Problem of RCTs in Education" (2022, with Minhaj Mahmud, Yasuyuki Sawada, Mai Seki, and Kazuma Takakura) Working Paper (Center for Research and Education in Program Evaluation, University of Tokyo website).
3. "Welfare-Deteriorating Construction of Public Infrastructure" (2019) (Graduation Thesis of Undergraduate at University of Tokyo), Working Paper (SSRN website).
Working in Progress
Coming soon!
Presentations
[2026] National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, European Association of Young Economists Annual Meeting, CEP Conference on the economics of crime and justice, Essen Health Conference, Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Workshop on the Economics of Crime for Junior Scholars, Workshop on Labour and Family Economics, Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, European Association of Labour Economists Conference
[2025] Sophia University, Workshop on Education Economics and Policy, World Congress of the Econometric Society, Otaru University of Commerce, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, University College London, Institute for Fiscal Studies
[2024] University of Tokyo, IZA/ECONtribute, International Monetary Fund, University College London, Institute for Fiscal Studies
[2023] University of Tokyo, Econometric Society European Winter Meeting, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, University College London, University of Mannheim
[2022] Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Conference, Institute for Fiscal Studies
[2021] HCEO-NES-CREC Virtual Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, Japanese Association of Development Economics
[2020] Otaru University of Commerce
[2019] Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics 2019 Conference, Japanese Association of Development Economics, Asian Development Bank, University of the Philippines, Japanese Association of Development Economics, Otaru University of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Economic Association Semi-annual Meeting, University of Tokyo
[2015] Korea-Japan Inter University Conference