Research
Published papers
Managing Long Working Hours: Evidence from a Management Practice Survey
with Ryo Kambayashi, Taisuke Kameda, Takuma Kawamoto, and Shigeru Sugihara
Accepted at Journal of Human Resources. [ESRI Discussion Paper version]
Using Managers' Expectations for Ex-Ante Policy Evaluation: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis
with Kohei Kawaguchi, Naomi Kodama, and Hiroshi Kumanomido
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023.
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
with Teresa Molina
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023.
Microfinance Competition and Multiple Borrowing: Evidence using Panel Data from Bangladesh
with Yasuyuki Sawada and Minhaj Mahmud
Review of Development Economics, 2022.
No Successor, No Success? The Impact of a Little Son on Business Performance
with Naomi Kodama and Yoshiaki Murakami
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2021.
with Kohei Kawaguchi and Naomi Kodama
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2021.
Firm Performance and Macro Forecast Accuracy
with Nicholas Bloom, Joel David, and Maiko Koga
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2020. [VOX-EU Column]
Exporting Sweatshops? Evidence from Myanmar
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020.
Short and Long Recall Errors in Retrospective Household Surveys: Evidence from a Developing Country
with Yasuyuki Sawada and Hiroyuki Nakata
The Journal of Development Studies, 2019.
Working papers
Union Leaders: Experimental Evidence from Myanmar
with Laura Boudreau, Rocco Macchiavello, and Virginia Minni.
Revision requested at American Economic Review.
The Scope of Variable Inputs and Markup Estimates
with Shuichiro Nishioka
Revision requested at the RAND Journal of Economics.
Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Long-run Effects of Repeated School Admission Reforms
with Chaki Moriguchi and Yusuke Narita
[RIETI Discussion Paper version]
Plant Survival and Regional Banking in Japan
with Shuichiro Nishioka and Toshihiro Okubo
RIETI Discussion Paper.
Measuring Markups from Revenue and Total Cost: An Application to Japanese Plant-Product Matched Data
with Shuichiro Nishioka
RIETI Discussion Paper.
Industrial Relations and Workplace Communication in Myanmar Garment Sector
with Min Zar Ni Lin, Virginia Minni, Hanh Nguyen, and Rocco Macchiavello
IGC Working Paper.
Entropy Characterisation of Insurance Demand: Theory and Evidence
with Hiroyuki Nakata and Yasuyuki Sawada
RIETI Discussion Paper.
Work in progress
Human and Nature: Economies of Density and Conservation in the Amazon Rainforest
with Shunsuke Tsuda and Yoshito Takasaki
Family Labor and Product Quality: Evidence from Lao Textile Industry
with Yasuyuki Sawada
A Rise of New Elites: The Role of Middle Schools in Early Development
with Hidehiko Ichimura, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Yutaro Takayasu.
The Origins of Lean Production: U.S. Training for Japanese Firms after WWII
with Michela Giorcelli and Yuki Higuchi
Articles/Book Chapters
Economic and Social Development of Bangladesh Miracle and Challenges, Chapter 6 and 10, edited by Yasuyuki Sawada, Minhaj Muhmud, and Naohiro Kitano, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Should We Blame Walmart and Nike for the Factory Collapses in Bangladesh? SIEPR Policy Brief, December 2013.
The Impact of Exporting on Factory Working Conditions in Myanmar PEDL Research Note.
Risk Preference of Managers and Firm Investments in Lao PDR, with Yasuyuki Sawada, in Disaster Risks, Social Preferences, and Policy Effects: Field Experiments in Selected ASEAN and East Asian Countries, ERIA Research Project Report FY 2013, eds. Sothea Oum, No.34. Jakarta: ERIA, pp. 265-283.