Profile

Name

• Yuta Kuroda | 黒田 雄太

Current Positions

• Senior Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (April 2025–Present)

• Part-time Lecturer, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka Metropolitan University (April 2025–Present)

Past Positions

Full-time

• Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka Metropolitan University (Apr. 2022–Mar. 2025)

• Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka City University (October 2020–March 2022)

• Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (April 2019–September 2020)

Part-time

• Part-time Lecturer, College of Economics, Nihon University (September 2023–February 2024)

• Part-time Lecturer, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (October 2020–February 2021)

Visiting Positions

• Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (Oct. 2021–Mar. 2025)

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Tohoku University, March 2019 (Advisor: Midori Wakabayashi) 

• M.A. in Economics, Tohoku University, March 2016 (Advisor: Kentaro Nakajima)

• B.A. in Economics, Tohoku University, March 2014 (Advisor: Kentaro Nakajima)

Research Fields

Primary

• Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics

Secondary

• Labor Economics, Public Economics, Regional Science

Research Grants

Principal Investigator

• Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, JSPS (April 2024–March 2028)

• Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, JSPS (April 2021–March 2025)

• Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, JSPS (August 2019–March 2023)

Co-Investigator

• Research Grant, Aviation Policy Research Association (April 2025–March 2026), (PI: Shohei Yasuda) 

• Joint Usage and Research Center Programs at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (April 2025–March 2026), (PI: Takeru Sugasawa)

• Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), JSPS (June 2023–March 2026), (PI: Shinpei Sano)

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2023–March 2028), (PI: Shinpei Sano)

Teaching Experience

Tohoku University

• Empirical Economic Analysis (Graduate, 2025–Present)

• Econometrics (Graduate, 2019–2020)

Nihon University

• Seminar in Welfare Economics (Undergraduate, 2023)

Osaka Metropolitan University

• Welfare Economics (Graduate, 2022–2024)

• Welfare Economics (Undergraduate, 2022–Present)

• Economic Data Science (Undergraduate, 2023–2024)

Osaka City University

• Welfare Economics (Graduate, 2021)

• Welfare Economics (Undergraduate, 2020–2021)

• Labor Economics (Undergraduate, 2021)

Tohoku University (Teaching assistant)

• Introductory Economics (Undergraduate, 2018)

• Microeconomics (Undergraduate, 2015)

Association Memberships

• Japanese Economic Association

• Applied Regional Science Conference

  • Program Committee of Annual Conference, 2021

Selected Media

• Social capital helps in Covid-19 preventive actions, Weekly Toyo Keizai, October 2022

• The impact of education on society 1–10, The Nikkei, June 2022

Professional Experience

• Committee Member, Candidate Selection Committee for the “Basic Concept of Utilizing the Private Sector in Osaka City Administrative Operations,” Osaka City (May 2024–July 2024)

• Statistical Consultant, Osaka Prefectural Government (April 2024–March 2025)

• Committee Member, Candidate Selection Committee for the “Support for Implementation of the Osaka City Data Utilization Policy,” Osaka City (January 2024–April 2024)

• Organizer, Kansai Labor Workshop (October 2023–Present)

• Committee Member, Candidate Selection Committee for the “Basic Survey on Policy Issues Against the Background of Declining Population, etc.,” Osaka City (December 2021–March 2022)

Honors, Scholarships and others

• Encouragement Award for Young Researchers, Osaka Metropolitan University, July 2023

• Exemption from Repayment with Particularly Outstanding Achievements (Type 1 Loans, Half), JASSO, May 2019

• Best Paper Award, Keiwakai Memorial Foundation, March 2019

• Scholarship, Sunaga Foundation, 2018

Journal Referees

• Environmental and Resource Economics (2)

• Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

• Journal of Asian Economics

• Landscape and Urban Planning

• Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

• Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment

• Interdisciplinary Information Sciences

• International Journal of Real Estate Studies

CV.pdf (as of August 2025)