takasaki-at-e.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Please replace -at- with @)
New work
<NEW> Takasaki, Yoshito, Katsuo Kogure, and Mayuko Onuki. 2025. "The COVID-19 pandemic could worsen the psychological well-being of people with disabilities in Cambodia." Scientific Reports.
<NEW> Kogure, Katsuo and Yoshito Takasaki. 2025. "A multi-scalar causal analysis across space and time: An application to the COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo State, Brazil." Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
<NEW> Araujo, Ana L., Oliver T. Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki, Christian Abizaid, and Maritza Paredes. 2025. "Policy-induced land scarcity among Amazonian Indigenous territories." (under review)
<NEW> Takasaki, Yoshito, Yuma Noritomo, Oliver T. Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. 2025. "Site selection causes bias in policy-oriented social science research." (under review)
Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. 2025. "Agricultural productivity augmented by market access can conserve tropical forests: Evidence from Amazonia." (under review)
Takasaki, Yoshito, Mayuko Onuki, Keitaro Aoyagi, and Shuhei Kainuma. 2025. "Vocational training with intergroup contact for disabled people in Rwanda."
Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T., Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. 2025. "Impacts of social assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic in poor remote communities." (under review)
Tsuda, Shunsuke, Yoshito Takasaki, and Mari Tanaka. 2023. “Human and nature: Economies of density and conservation in the Amazon rainforest.”
Specialization
Development Economics; Empirical Microeconomics; Field Experiment; Resource Economics
Research interests
Poverty; Political economy; Institution; Geography; Space; Community; Social network; Ethnicity; Conflict; Crime; Disability; Labor; Education; Health; Behavior; Risk; Natural disaster; Tropical forest; Shifting cultivation; Rural livelihoods; Conservation
Contact
Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Japan
Links
Peruvian Amazon Rural Livelihoods and Poverty (PARLAP) Project
Development Economics at the University of Tokyo (a portal site of development economics network at the University of Tokyo)