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.")

Working in Progress

Coming soon!

Other Working Papers

1.  "Welfare-Deteriorating Construction of Public Infrastructure" (2019) (Graduation Thesis of Undergraduate at University of Tokyo), Working Paper (SSRN website).

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).

Presentations

(Referred: *)

1. IZA Economics of Education Workshop (Bonn, Germany, October 2024, expected)*

2. FAD Seminar Series, International Monetary Fund (Washington D.C., USA, August 2024)

3. UCL PhD Seminar (London, England, May 2024)

4. IFS Working in Progress seminar (London, England, May 2024)

5. CREPE Day, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan, December 2023)

6. Econometric Society European Winter Meeting, University of Manchester (Manchester, England, December 2023)*

7. JADE/ GRIPS Development Economics Workshop, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo, Japan, July 2023)

8. PhD seminar, UCL (London, England, June 2023) 

9. New Generation Economics (Hohenheim, Germany, April 2023)

10. AASLE (Tokyo, Japan, December 2022)*

11. EdSkills seminar, Institute for Fiscal Studies (London, England, June 2022)

12. HCEO-NES-CREC Virtual Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality 2021 (Moscow, Russia (online), July 2021, poster)

13. Japanese Association of Development Economics (Japan (online), April 2021)*

14. SWET (Hokkaido, Japan, August 2020)*

15. AASLE (Singapore, December 2019)*

16. Asian Development Bank (2nd time, Manila, the Philippines, October 2019)

17. Asian Development Bank (Manila, the Philippines, October 2019)

18. University of the Philippines (Manila, the Philippines, October 2019, invited)

19. Japanese Association of Development Economics, Young Researchers' Conference (Tokyo, Japan, November 2019)*

20. SWET (Hokkaido, Japan, August 2019)*

21. Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo, Japan, June 2019)

22. Japan Economic Association Semi-annual Meeting (Tokyo, Japan, June 2019, poster)*

23. Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (The 2nd CREPE Conference on Program Evaluation), the University of Tokyo. (Tokyo, Japan, March 2019)*

24. Microempirical Workshop, the University of Tokyo. (Tokyo, Japan, January 2019)

25. Korea-Japan Inter University Conference, Seoul, Korea. (Seoul, Korea, November 2015)