Profile

Name

• Yuta Kuroda | 黒田 雄太

Current Positions

• Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka Metropolitan University (April 2022–Present)

• Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (October 2021–Present)

Past Positions

Full-time Employment

• 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 Employment

• 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)

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

Teaching Experience

Nihon University

• Seminar in Welfare Economics (Undergraduate, 2023)

Osaka Metropolitan University

• Welfare Economics (Graduate, 2022–Present)

• Welfare Economics (Undergraduate, 2022–Present)

• Economic Data Science (Undergraduate, 2023–Present)

Osaka City University

• Welfare Economics (Graduate, 2021)

• Welfare Economics (Undergraduate, 2020–2021)

• Labor Economics (Undergraduate, 2021)

Tohoku University

• Econometrics (Graduate, 2019–2020)

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

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

• 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)

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

• Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Landscape and Urban Planning, Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, International Journal of Real Estate Studies

CV.pdf (as of July 2024)