Research

Working papers

• • Consumption Smoothing in Metropolis: Evidence from the Working-class Households in Prewar Tokyo, arXiv

  • Technology, Institution, and Regional Growth: Evidence from Mineral Mining Industry in Industrializing Japan, arXiv

Refereed journal articles

Economic History

• • • Consumption smoothing in the working-class households of interwar Japan. The Journal of Economic History 84, issue. 1 (2024): 111-148.

    • Persistence of natural disasters on children's health: Evidence from the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. The Economic History Review 75, issue. 4 (2022): 1054-1082.

      • • Stunting Conference Report (LSE; CEPR; ESRC)

        • Conference Report: Stunting: Past, Present and Future

        • Blog post: The Long Run - the Economic History Society Blog

    • Nutrition, crowding and disease among low-income households in Tokyo in 1930 (with E. Schneider and I. Gazeley). Australian Economic History Review 60, issue.1 (2020): 73-104.

      • • Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize winning article

        • Special issue article (invited submission)

    • Price shocks in regional markets: Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 (with J. Hunter). The Economic History Review 72,  issue.4 (2019): 1335-1362.

      • • Blog post: The Long Run - the Economic History Society Blog

    • Disease and child growth in industrialising Japan: Critical windows and the growth pattern, 1917-39 (with E. Schneider). Explorations in Economic History 69,  (2018): 64-80.

Demography (selected)

• • • Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780-1839 (with Eric Schneider and Sören Edvinsson), accepted to Population Studies.

    • Pandemic influenza and gender imbalance: Mortality selection before births, Social Science & Medicine 311, 2022, 115299.

    • Consequences of war: Japan's demographic transition and the marriage market (with M. Komura), Journal of Population Economics 35, 2022, 1037-1069.

    • Health shocks, recovery, and the first thousand days: The effect of the Second World War on height growth in Japanese children (with E. Schneider and T. Cole), Population and Development Review 47, 2021, 1075-1105.

      • • Blog post: LSE Economic History Blog

    • Persistence of pandemic influenza on the development of children: Evidence from industrializing Japan, Social Science & Medicine 181, 2017, 43-53.

Methodology (selected)

• • • Heterogeneous treatment effects of safe water on infectious disease: Do meteorological factors matter? (with Y. Matsushita), Cliometrica 13, 2019, 55-82.

    • Public health improvements and mortality in interwar Tokyo: A Bayesian disease mapping approach (with S. Shirota and G. Kobayashi), Cliometrica 12, 2018, 1-31.

    • Empirical uncertain Bayes methods in area-level models (with S. Sugasawa and T. Kubokawa), Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 44, 2017, 684-706.

    • The impact of social workers on infant mortality in inter-war Tokyo: Bayesian dynamic panel quantile regression with endogenous variables (with G. Kobayashi), Cliometrica 9, 2015, 97-130.

Peer-reviewed book chapter

• • Cliometrics of Child Health. Contributed chapter for Handbook of Cliometrics, Springer Nature.