Research

Papers

• "At the Right Time: Eliminating Mismatch between Cash Flow and Credit Flow in Microcredit" (with A. Shonchoy and K. Takahashi)

• "Nudging by Beauty in the Field: Improving Women’s Health Decisions and Well-being" (with M. Mahmud, N. Mitsuyama, Y. Sawada, and T. Tanaka) 

• "The Poor Receive Less: Remittance Behavior of Female Migrants in Myanmar" (with Y. Zhai), Journal of International Development, forthcoming

• "Does Marriage Work as a Savings Commitment Device? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam" (with T. Tanaka), PLOS ONE, June 2019

• "DVD-based Learning Program for University Entrance Exams: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh" (with Y. Sawada and A. Shonchoy)

• "Price and non-price information frictions in regional arbitrage: The case of rice traders in Antananarivo, Madagascar" (with Y. Arimoto, T. Ralandison, T. Sakurai, and K. Takahashi) Economic Development and Cultural Change, January 2019, 67(2), 273-313.

• “Rice Flows across Regions in Madagascar” (with T. Ralandison, Y. Arimoto, T. Sakurai, and K. Takahashi) African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, March 2018, 13(1): pp.78-105.

• "Microcredit Games with Noisy Signals: Contagion and Free-riding" Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, September 2014, 33, 96-113.

• "Joint Liability and Strategic Default: Evidence from Framed Field Experiments in Vietnam"

• "Microfinance Revolution: Its Effects, Innovations, and Challenges" (with K. Takahashi). Developing Economies, March 2010, 48(1), 15 – 73.

• "Why Is the Take-up of Microinsurance So Low? Evidence from a Health Insurance Scheme in India" (with S. Ito). Developing Economies, March 2010, 48(1), 74-101.

• "Foreign Aid and Recurrent Cost: Donor Competition, Aid Proliferation and Budget Support" (with Y. Arimoto), Review of Development Economics, vol.13(2), pages 276-287.

• "Heterogeneous Contests and Less Informative Signals" (with N. Yagi), Japanese Economic Review, March 2008, 59(1), 113-126.

• "Employment with connection: Negative Network Effects" Journal of Development Economics, October 2006, 81(1), pp.244-258.

• "Commitment to Development Index (CDI): Critical Comments" (with Y. Sawada, H. Kohama, and M. Ikegami), DAKIS Discussion Paper No.1, 2004.

Research in Progress

• Decomposing Pro-poorness of Growth: Application to Household Survey Data in Vietnam (with B.N. Pham)

• Revisiting National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa With New Nighttime Light Data (with S. Okamura, Y. Ueno, and T. Yamagoshi)

• Lending maturity of microcredit and dependence on moneylenders

• Determinants and Impacts of Health Insurance Nonutilization

• To Be Arbitraged? Rice Traders in Madagascar (with Y. Arimoto, T. Ralandison and K. Takahashi)

• Adverse Selection Across Time: Health Insurance Program in India

Book Chapters

• "Industrial Hubs: An Economic Geography and Empirical Economics Perspective." In Justin Lin and Arkebe Oqubay ed., The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development. (Oxford University Press), 2020.

• "Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Education in Bangladesh: Achievements and Challenges" (with Y. Sawada and A. Shonchoy) in book edited by Y. Sawada, M. Mahmud, and N. Kitano, Economic and Social Development of Bangladesh: Miracle and Challenges, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

• "The Diversity of Fiscal Decentralization Below Provincial level and Its Relation to Development in Vietnam: Do more decentralized provinces improve health and economic equity?" (with H. Uchimura) In Hiroko Uchimura ed., Fiscal Decentralization and Development: Experiences of Three Developing Countries in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan), 2012

• "Intergovernmental Fiscal Relationships in Vietnam after the 2002 State Budget Law: The Center-Province and the Province-District/Commune Dimensions"  (with H. Uchimura) In Hiroko Uchimura ed., Fiscal Decentralization and Development: Experiences of Three Developing Countries in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan), 2012

• "Economic Integration and Poverty" In M. Fujita, I. Kuroiwa, and S. Kumagai ed., The Economics of East Asian Integration (Edward Elgar), 2011

• "Publicly-Provided Primary Health Care Services in Rural India: Achievements, problems, and possible solutions"  (with S. Ito) In Hiroko Uchimura ed.,Making Health Services More Accessible in Developing Countries: Finance and Health Resources for Functioning Health Systems (Palgrave Macmillan), 2009