Masayuki Kudamatsu
Associate Professor
Publications
GIS for Credible Identification Strategies in Economics Research
CESifo Economic Studies, 64(2), pp. 327-338
June 2018
Political Selection in China: The Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance
with Ruixue Jia and David Seim
Journal of the European Economic Association, 13, pp. 631-668
August 2015
REPLICATION FILES (to be downloaded from the Journal's website)
Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Micro Data
Journal of the European Economic Association, 10, pp. 1294-1317
December 2012
REPLICATION FILES (to be downloaded from the Journal's website)
with Timothy Besley
Institutions and Economic Performance (edited by Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University Press), pp. 452-510
November 2008
REPLICATION FILES
with Timothy Besley
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 96(2), pp. 313-318
May 2006
REPLICATION FILES
Working Papers
Observing Economic Growth in Unrecognized States with Nighttime Light
March 2019 (OSIPP Discussion Paper DP-2019-E-002)
Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa
with Torsten Persson and David Strömberg
Revision requested from American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
August 2016 (formerly CEPR Discussion Paper no. 9222)
Ethic Favoritism: Micro Evidence from Guinea
July 2009
Teaching
with Hiro Ishise, Shuhei Kitamura, Tetsuya Matsubayashi, and Takeshi Murooka
February 2019
Undergraduate course on the political causes of economic prosperity
Master / PhD course to introduce political economics
Politics through the Lens of Economics (Introduction to Political Economics)
A course for first-year undergraduate students who do not major in economics
Project Seminar in English
An undergraduate class for students to improve their oral communication skills in English by discussing two books in development economics: Poor Economics and Why Nations Fail.
ArcGIS 10 for Applied Microeconometric Research
I’ve been teaching this course for PhD students at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics since 2010. It’s been quite popular to the extent that students from Uppsala, Gothenburg and even Oslo attended.
Development Economics for PhD students
I’ve been teaching the 2nd year PhD course on development economics for students enrolled in Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics since 2008, joint with Jakob Svensson, Tessa Bold, Andreas Madestam, and Konrad Burchardi.
Democracy and Autocracy (for Master students)
This is a set of slides for an one-off 90-minute lecture that I gave to the second year master students of economics at Stockholm University on October 27, 2008. Technical details are kept at minimum.
Curated Links for Economists
My blog on datasets for development economics research
A (massive) collection of pieces of advice for economists in various stages
A collection of useful websites for Stata users.
経済学大学院留学ガイド (in Japanese)
For Japanese students wishing to study PhD in economics in North America and Europe
Visiting Stockholm?