Research

Research Interest:

Health Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Economics of Education, Labor Economics

Publication

1. Impact of Financial Support Expansion on Restaurant Entries and Exits During the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Koichiro Onishi), Small Business Economics, online first (open access).

   • WP: SSRN, IIPR DP

2. The role of education in health policy reform outcomes: Evidence from Japan, European Journal of Health Economics, Volume 25, pp.49-76, February 2024 (open access).

   • WP: SSRN, UY HEDG WP

3. Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for COVID-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area (with Ryuichi Tanaka, Shun-ichiro Bessho and Haruko Noguchi), American Journal of Health Economics, Volume 8, Number 4 Fall 2022, pp.449-476, November 2022 (open access).

   • WP: IZA DP, UT ISS DP, 野口晴子教授による記事 ( http://www.f.waseda.jp/h.noguchi/file/202206.pdf )

4. Do macroeconomic shocks in the local labor market lead to child maltreatment and death?: Empirical evidence from Japan (with Akira Kawamura, Cheolmin Kang, Zentaro Yamagata and Haruko Noguchi), Child Abuse & Neglect, Vol.124, February 2022, 105430 (open access).

   • 野口晴子教授による記事 ( http://www.f.waseda.jp/h.noguchi/file/202204.pdf )

5. Retirement and Health Investment Behaviors: An International Comparison (with Hiroyuki Motegi and Yoshinori Nishimura), Journal of the Economics of Ageing (special issue: Cross-Country Analysis of Retirement, Health, and Wellbeing), Vol.16, June 2020, 100267.

   • WP:SHARE WP, MPRA2, MPRA1

6. The Effect of Instructional Quality on Student Achievement: Evidence from Japan (with Hiroyuki Motegi), Japan & The World Economy (special issue: Economics of Education in Japan),Vol. 52, December 2019, 100961.

   • WP: SSRN

7. What Explains the Difference in the Effect of Retirement on Health?: Evidence from Global Aging Data (With Yoshinori Nishimura and Hiroyuki Motegi), Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 32, Issue 3, pp. 792-847, July 2018.

   • WP: MPRA, UY HEDG WP

Working paper

1. A pandemic shock and the change in allocation of burdens among family members: Evidence from elderly care during the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries (with Yoshinori Nishimura), SSRN No.4534726.

2. Do health checkup programs affect residents’ health? Evidence from heterogeneous responses across local governments to the revision of national checkup policy in Japan (with Akira Kawamura, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Toshihide Awatani, and Haruko Noguchi), WINPEC Working Paper Series No.E2211.

3. Do class closures affect students’ achievements? Heterogeneous effects of students’ socioeconomic backgrounds (with Ryuichi Tanaka, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Akira Kawamura, and Haruko Noguchi), IZA Discussion Paper No.15751.

   • Older version: RIETI DP (Non technical summary in Japanese)

   • Media coverage: HuffPost, 2022.5.24

4. Who Has Benefited from Nursing Home Expansion in Japan?: The Effects of Government Supply-Side Intervention in the Elderly Care Market (with Yoshinori Nishimura), SSRN No.4030677. (under review)

   • Older versions: UY HEDG WP2, UY HEDG WP1

5. Mental Retirement: Evidence from Global Aging Data (with Yoshinori Nishimura), MPRA Paper No.84555.

   • Older versions: MPRA, UY HEDG WP

6. The Effect of Nuclear Accidents on Land Prices: Evidence from Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan (with Yoshinori Nishimura), SSRN No.3057221.

Presentation

   - 2022 -

1. The 2022 Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting (virtual conference),  May 28-29, 2022

2. YNU Data Science Mini Conference 2022 (virtual conference), February 10, 2022

   - 2021 -

1. Research Meeting at The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (online), August 5, 2021

2. Innovation Economics Workshop (online),  July 17, 2021

   - 2020 -

1. The 2020 Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting (virtual conference),  October 10-11, 2020

2. Research Seminar at Sophia University, January 24, 2020

   - 2019 -

1. Applied Economics Workshop, Keio University, Japan,  December 6, 2019

2. Modern Economics Seminar, Yokohama National University, Japan,  July 25, 2019

3. 2019 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China,  June 14-16, 2019

4. The Empirical Moral Science Workshop 2019, Kyoto University, Japan,  March 18-19, 2019

   - 2018 -

1. The 2018 Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting, University of Hyogo, Japan,  June 9-10, 2018

2. Tokyo Labor Economics Workshop, University of Tokyo, Japan, May 11, 2018

    - 2017 -

1. Seminar at National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan, December 5, 2017

2. 31st Annual Meeting of Applied Regional Science Conference, University of Tokyo, Japan,  November 25-26, 2017

3. The 12th Applied Microeconometrics Conference (in Japanese, 応用計量経済学コンファレンス), Hitotsubashi University, Japan,  November 18-19, 2017

4. 20th Labor Economics Conference (Poster), University of Tokyo, Japan,  September 16-17, 2017

5. The 2017 Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan,  September 9-10, 2017

6. The 12th Annual Meeting of Japan Health Economics Association, Keio University, Japan,  September 2, 2017

7. The 32nd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, ISCTE-IUL Campus and the “Aula Magna” of the University of Lisbon, Portugal,  August 21-25, 2017

8. The 4th Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, Hotel Emisia, Sapporo, Japan,  June 26-29, 2017

9. The 31st Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, June 14-17, 2017

10. The 8th Australasian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics, Coral Sea Resort, Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia,  May 1-3, 2017

    - 2016 -

1. The 11th Applied Microeconometrics Conference (in Japanese, 応用計量経済学コンファレンス), Osaka University, Japan,  November 12-13, 2016

2. Seminar at National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan, September 30, 2016

3. The 2016 Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting (Poster), Waseda University, Japan,  September 10-11, 2016

4. The 27th CEA (UK) and 8th CEA (Europe) Annual Conference, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany,  September 1-3, 2016

5. The 3rd Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy,  June 22-25, 2016

    - 2015 -

1. CIRJE Microeconomics Workshop, University of Tokyo, Japan, January 28, 2015