Research

Journal Articles

1. Maddawin, Angelica and Kazushi Takahashi (2025). "Do Cash Transfer Mitigate Risks and Crowd out Informal Insurance? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Philippines.” Philippine Review of Economics, 62(1): 77-111. 

2. Vannavanit, Worarit and Kazushi Takahashi (2025). “Effects of an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program during the Pandemic: Empirical Evidence from Thailand.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 121:MS#105409.

3. Otsuka, Keijiro, Thom S Jayne, Yukichi Mano, and Kazushi Takahashi (2024). "Viewpoint: Toward a Sustainable Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Maize and Rice." Food Policy, 129:  MS#102762, as a part of virtual special collection 

4. Layaoen, Cherry Wyle and Kazushi Takahashi (2022).  “The Long and The Short of It: Revisiting the Effects of Microfinance-Oriented Banks on Household Welfare in the Philippines.” Philippine Review of Economics, 59(2): 166-199. 

5. Layaoen, Cherry Wyle and Kazushi Takahashi.  (2022). “Can Microfinance Lending Crowd Out Informal Lenders? Evidence from the Philippines.”  Journal of International Development, 34: 370-414. 

6. Tanaka, Tomomi, Kazushi Takahashi, and Keijiro Otsuka. (2021). “Gains from Female Education in Rural Bangladesh: A Multidimensional Approach.” International Journal of Educational Development, 81, MS#102344. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102344

7. Mano, Yukichi, Kazushi Takahashi, and Keijiro Otsuka. (2020). “Mechanization in Land Preparation and Agricultural Intensification: The Case of Rice Farming in the Cote d’Ivoire.” Agricultural Economics, 51(6): 899-908. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/agec.12599

8. Noritomo, Yuma, and Kazushi Takahashi. (2020). “Can Insurance Payouts Prevent a Poverty Trap? Evidence from Randomized Experiments in Northern Kenya.” Journal of Development Studies, 56(11): 2079-2096. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1736281

9. Takahashi, Kazushi, Yuma Noritomo, Munenobu Ikegami, and Nathaniel D. Jensen.  (2020). “Understanding Pastoralists’ Dynamic Insurance Uptake Decisions: Evidence from Four-year Panel Data in Ethiopia.”  Food Policy, 95: MS#101910. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101910

10. Kurata, Masamitsu, Kazushi Takahashi, and Akira Hibiki. (2020). “Gender Differences in Associations of Household and Ambient Air Pollution with Child Health: Evidence from Household and Satellite-based Data in Bangladesh.” World Development, 128: MS#104779.  DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104779

11. Takahashi, Kazushi, Rie Muraoka, and Keijiro Otsuka. (2020). “Technology Adoption, Impact, and Extension in Developing Countries’ Agriculture: A Review of the Recent Literature.” Agricultural Economics, 51(1): 31-45.  DOI:  10.1111/agec.12539 (Invited contribution) 

12. Kudo, Yuya, Abu Shonchoy, and Kazushi Takahashi. (2019). “Short-term Impacts of Solar Lanterns on Child Health: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh.”  Journal of Development Studies, 55(11): 2329-2346. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1443207

13. Kudo, Yuya, Abu Shonchoy, and Kazushi Takahashi. (2019). “Can Solar Lanterns Improve Youth Academic Performance? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh.” World Bank Economic Review, 33(2): 436-460. DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhw073

14. Takahashi, Kazushi, Yukichi Mano, and Keijiro Otsuka. (2019). “Learning from Experts and Peer Farmers about Rice Production: Experimental Evidence from Cote d’Ivoire.” World Development, 122: 157-169. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.004

15. Matsuda, Ayako, Kazushi Takahashi, and Munenobu Ikegami. (2019). “Direct and Indirect Impacts of Index-based Livestock Insurance in Southern Ethiopia.”  Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 44: 481-502.  DOI: 10.1057/s41288-019-00132-y [free link to view-only full-text: https://rdcu.be/bzzI7]

16. Takahashi, Kazushi, Christopher B. Barrett, and Munenobu Ikegami. (2019). “Does Index Insurance Crowd In or Crowd Out Informal Risk Sharing? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(3): 672-691. DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aay042

17. Arimoto, Yutaka,  Hisaki Kono, Tsilavo Ralandison, Takeshi Sakurai, and Kazushi Takahashi (2019). “Price and Non-price Information Frictions in Regional Arbitrage: The Case of Rice Traders in Antananarivo, Madagascar.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67(2): 273-313.  DOI: 10.1086/698163 

18. Takahashi, Kazushi, Abu Shonchoy, Seiro Ito, and Takashi Kurosaki (2017). “How Does Contract Design Affect the Uptake of Microcredit among the Ultra-poor? Experimental Evidence from the River Islands of Northern Bangladesh.” Journal of Development Studies, 53(4): 530-547.  DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1156092 

19. Otsuka, Keijiro, Yuko Nakano, and Kazushi Takahashi (2016). “Contract Farming in Developed and Developing Countries.” Annual Review of Resource Economics, 8: 353-376. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-100815-095459 (Invited contribution)  

20. Takahashi, Kazushi, Munenobu Ikegami, Megan Sheahan, and Christopher B. Barrett (2016). “Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Index-Based Livestock Insurance Demand in Southern Ethiopia.” World Development, 78: 324-340.  [related blog post at Economics That Really Matters] DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.039 

21. Takahashi, Kazushi and Christopher B. Barrett (2014).  “The System of Rice Intensification and its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 96(1): 269-289.  [related blog post at NPR] DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aat086

22. Takahashi, Kazushi (2013). “The Roles of Risk and Ambiguity in the Adoption of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI): Evidence from Indonesia.” Food Security, 5(4): 513-524. DOI: 10.1007/s12571-013-0270-z

23. Takahashi, Kazushi (2011). “Determinants of Indonesian Rural Secondary School Enrolment: Gender, Neighbourhood, and School Characteristics.” Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 47(3): 395-413. DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2011.619053

24. Takahashi, Kazushi, Takayuki Higashikata and Kazunari Tsukada (2010). “The Short-Term Poverty Impact of Small-Scale, Collateral-Free Microcredit in Indonesia: A Matching Estimator Approach.” Developing Economies, 48(1): 128-155. DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1049.2010.00101.x 

25. Tsukada, Kazunari, Takayuki Higashikata and Kazushi Takahashi (2010). “Microfinance Penetration and its Influence on Credit Choice in Indonesia: Evidence from a Household Panel Survey.” Developing Economies, 48(1): 102-127. DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1049.2010.00100.x

26. Kono, Hisaki and Kazushi Takahashi (2010). “Microfinance Revolution: Its Effects, Innovations, and Challenges.” Developing Economies, 48(1): 15-73. DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1049.2010.00098.x 

27. Takahashi, Kazushi and Keijiro Otsuka (2009). “The Increasing Importance of Nonfarm Income and the Changing Use of Labor and Capital in Rice Farming: The Case of Central Luzon, 1979-2003.” Agricultural Economics, 40(2): 231-242. DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00372.x 

Book and Book Chapters

1. Jensen, Nathaniel D, Francesco P Fava, Andrew G Mude, Christopher B Barrett......Kazushi Takahashi ......(2024). Escaping Poverty Traps and Unlocking Prosperity in the Face of Climate Risk: Lessons from Index-Based Livestock Insurance (Elements in Development Economics), Cambridge University Press. 

2. Kono, Hisaki and Kazushi Takahashi (2024) "Past and Future of Empirical Development Economics" in Next-Generation of Empirical Research in Economics. eds. K. Otsuka., T. Kurosaki., Y. Sawada., and T. Sonobe. Springer. 

3. Otsuka, Keijiro, Yuichi Mano, and Kazushi Takahashi (eds) (2023)  Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa, Springer. 

4. Takahashi, Kazushi (2022). “A UFO? Assessment of System of Rice Intensification from the Agricultural Economics Perspective.” in Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa: Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka, eds. J.P. Estudillo., Y. Kijima., and T. Sonobe. Springer. 

5. Takahashi, Kazushi and Keijiro Otsuka (2009). “Human Capital Investment and Poverty Reduction over Generations: A Case from the Rural Philippines, 1979-2003.” in Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Asia and Africa, eds. K.Otsuka., J.P.Estudillo., and Y.Sawada. London: Routledge.

Misc

1. Estadilla, Ruby Jane,  and Kazushi Takahashi (2025). “Examining Household Resilience as a Pathway to Food Security: Evidence from the Philippines. ” Journal of International Society for Southeast Asian Agricultural Sciences, forthcoming. 

2. Jensen, Nathaniel, Christopher B. Barrett, Andrew Mude, Rupsha Banerjee, Yuma Noritomo, Kelvin Shikuku, Kazushi Takahashi, and Nils Teufel (2025). “Index-based Livestock Insurance To Support Pastoralists Against Droughts,” Food Policy, 137: MS#102909 

3. Kurata, Masamitsu, Akira Hibiki, Kazushi Takahashi, and Yutaka Matsumi (2025). “Urban-Rural Differences in Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality: A Comparative Study in Bangladesh,” Toxics 13(6): 509. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics13060509

4. Otsuka, Keijiro, Yukichi Mano, and Kazushi Takahashi (2022). “Toward a Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa,”  JICA Ogata Research Institute Policy Note 9.

5. Kudo, Yuya, Abu S. Shonchoy, and Kazushi Takahashi (2019). “Solar Lanterns and Youth Academic Performance in Bangladesh,” World Bank Research Digest 13(2): p.9. 

6. Ralandison, Tsilavo, Yutaka Arimoto, Hisaki Kono, Takeshi Sakurai, and Kazushi Takahashi (2018). “Rice Flows across Regions in Madagascar.” African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics,13(1): 78-105. 

7. Takahashi, Kazushi, Munenobu Ikegami, Megan Sheahan, and Christopher B. Barrett (2017). “Drivers of Demand for Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Southern Ethiopia.” ILRI Research Brief 73: pp.1-4.  

8. Takahashi, Kazushi (2017). Book Review  “In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution: Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields, ” edited by Keijiro Otsuka and Donald F. Larson, Springer. Developing Economies, 55(3): pp. 250-252.  

9. Takahashi, Kazushi  (2017). “Mobile Phone Expansion, Informal Risk Sharing, and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Rural Uganda.” Sophia Economic Review, 62(1-2): 1-17.  (Invited contribution)  

10. Takahashi, Kazushi (2013). “Pro-poor Growth or Poverty Trap? Estimating the Intergenerational Income Mobility in Rural Philippines.” Empirical Economics Letters, 12(8): 861-868. 

11. Takahashi, Kazushi and Seiro Ito (2010). Impact Evaluation Report on Small Scale Irrigation Management Project (Indonesia),  Tokyo: JICA.

12. Takahashi, Kazushi (2009). “Is South Sulawesi a Center of Growth in Eastern Indonesia? Japanese ODA Strategy Revisited.” Economics and Finance in Indonesia, 57(2): 203-218.

13. Higashikata, Takayuki, Etsuyo Michida and Kazushi Takahashi (2008). “Quantitative Analysis of Indonesia's Short and Long-term Development Strategies.” Background Paper No.4 for JICA-IDE Joint Workshop. 

14. Ito, Seiro and Kazushi Takahashi (2008). “The Application of Quantitative Impact Evaluation: A Case Study from Two Irrigation Projects in Rural Indonesia.” Tokyo: JBIC.

15. Uemura, Jinini and Kazushi Takahashi (eds) (2008). 2008 Economic Forecasts for East Asian Region: EARM Economic Forecasting Report, Chiba: IDE-JETRO.

Working Papers

1. “Bridging the Skills Gap: The Role of Vocational Education and Training in Shaping Youth Employment in Sri Lanka.“ (with M.L.U. Kumudumali Piyasen), 2025. 

2. “Examining Gender Differences in Employment: The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Policy in the Philippines.” (with Munoz Mika Samson), 2024. R&R

3. “Saving for the Lean Season and Seasonal Poverty Dynamics: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment and High-frequency Data.”  (with Takeshi Aida, Jun Goto, Yu Ri Kim, Hisaki Kono, Takashi Kurosaki, and Abu S. Shonchoy), 2024. [ADB-IEA Innovative Policy Award 2023, Honorable Mention] 

4. "The Mitigating Effects of Irrigation Rehabilitation on Climate Variability and Water Scarcity: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Philippines.” (with Maddawin Angelica Bulan), 2024.   R&R

5. “At the Right Time: Disbursement and Repayment Schedules of Microcredit Loans for Sharecropping Farmers.”  (with Hisaki Kono and Abu S. Shonchoy), 2024. [ADB-IEA Innovative Policy Research Award 2022, Honorable Mention] 

6. “Does Liquidity Matter? Index Insurance Payouts and Subsequent Demand.” (with Anne G. Timu, Christopher R. Gustafson, Munenobu Ikegami,  and Nathaniel D. Jensen), 2020. 

7.  “Spillovers as a Driver to Reduce Ex-post Inequality Generated by Randomized Experiments: Evidence from an Agricultural Training Intervention.” (with Yukichi Mano and Keijiro Otsuka), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study Discussion Paper HIAS-E-69, 2018 & JICA -RI Working Paper 174, 2018 (substantially revised version is published in World Development, entitled as “Learning from Experts and Peer Farmers about  Rice Production: Experimental Evidence from Cote d’Ivoire” ) .

8. “T.B.A. (To Be Arbitraged)? Extensive and Intensive Margin in Rice Trading in Madagascar.” (with Hisaki Kono, Yutaka Arimoto, Tsilavo Ralandison, and Takeshi Sakurai), 2017. 

9. “Is There Any Premium for Unobservable Quality? A Hedonic Price Analysis of the Malagasy Rice Market.” (with Takeshi Sakurai, Tsilavo Ralandison, Yutaka Arimoto, and Hisaki Kono), IDE Discussion Paper 504, 2015.

10. “Impacts of Solar Lanterns in Geographically Challenged Locations: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh.” (with Yuya Kudo and Abu Shonchoy), IDE Discussion Paper 502, 2015.

11. “Sources of Regional Income Disparity in Rural Vietnam: Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition.” IDE Discussion Paper 95, 2007.  

Work in Progress

1. System of Rice Intensification in Bangladesh (with Yoko Kijima, Yukichi Mano, Abudul Malek Mohammad, Yuko Nakano, Reuben Ngari)  

2. Seasonal Poverty with High Frequent Survey in Bangladesh (with Takeshi Aida, Jun Goto, Yu Ri Kim, Hisaki Kono, Takashi Kurosaki, and Abu Shonchoy)

3. Air Pollution and Child Health in India and Bangladesh (with Akira Hibiki and Masamitsu Kurata)

4. Agricultural Microcredit in Bangladesh (with Hisaki Kono and Abu Shonchoy)  

5. Agricultural Extension in Ghana (with Wataru Kodama and Yukichi Mano)

6. Agricultural Microinsurance in Vietnam (with Vu Ha Thu, Duc Tran Anu, and Munenobu Ikegami)

7. Demand for Microinsurance in Mali (with Tim Olkers and Oliver Mußhoff) 

Referee Service

Asian Development Review; Agribusiness; Agricultural Economics; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy; Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics; B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy; British Food Journal; Bulletin of Indonesian Economics Studies;  Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics; Developing Economies; Development Policy Review; European Review of Agricultural Economics; Environment, Development, and Sustainability; Evaluation and Program Planning; Food Policy; Food Security; Gender, Technology, and Development; Global Food Security;  Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics; Journal of Agricultural Economics; Journal of Asian Economics; Journal of Development Studies; Journal of International Development; Nature Reviews Earth & Environment; NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences; Pest Management Science; Rangeland Ecology & Management; Social Science and Humanities Open; Sustainability Science; Technology in Society; World Bank Economic Review; World Development; World Development Perspectives

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