Shuhei Kitamura

Upcoming talks

• February 17, Public Policy Studies Association, Kansai University (invited talk)

• April 23, Hong Kong Baptist University

• May 16, World Bank Land Conference 2024, Washington D.C.

• June 21, CiNet

• September 24, Otaru University of Commerce

• Fall 2024, Japanese Economic Association Fall Meeting, Fukuoka University (invited talk)

Publications E=Economics, P=Psychology, PS=Political Science

• The Constructive and Destructive Power of Social Norms in the Presence of Authoritative Influence (with K. Yamada). American Psychologist, 2023, forthcoming. (P)

  • • • [Online Appendix] [RCT Registry] [Pre-Analysis Plan] [Replication package]

• Now or Later?: The Inter-temporal Decision-making of Electoral Participation (with T. Matsubayashi). Political Behavior, 2022, Vol. 45, 1683–1709. (PS)

  • • • [Online Appendix]

• Geography and State Fragmentation (with N.-P. Lagerlöf). Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, Vol. 18(4), pp. 1726–1769. (E)

  • • • [Online Appendix] [Natural Borders (an earlier version)]

Working papers

Economic development, political economy, and cultural change

• Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Mind and Culture: Evidence from Visual Art Submitted

• Cities, Conflict, and Corridors (with N.-P. Lagerlöf)

• Tillers of Prosperity: Land Ownership, Reallocation, and Structural Transformation Reject and resubmit at American Economic Review

  • • • [STEG Working Paper] [CJEB Working Paper]

• World Historical Battles Database

• Loyalty and Treason: Theory and Evidence from Japan's Land Reform

Human behavior, psychology, and neuroscience

• Semantic Processing of Political Words in Naturalistic Information Differs by Political Orientation (with Aya S. Ihara) Submitted

• UFOs: The Political Economy of Unidentified Threats

• Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress (with I. Almås, M. Auffhammer, T. Bold, I. Bolliger, A. Dembo, S. Hsiang, T. Miguel, and R. Pickmans) Conditionally accepted at The Economic Journal

  • • • [NBER Working Paper] [RCT Registry]

      • Media coverage: CNN, National Public Radio (NPR), VoxDev

• Public Media Do Serve the State: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (with T. Kuroda)

Others

• "Towards Transparent Economic Research: Pre-Analysis Plans and Registered Reports". Presentation slides prepared for a tutorial session at the 2nd Japan Association for Development Economics (JADE) Conference.