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Yoshito Takasaki, Ph.D.
takasaki-at-e.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Please replace -at- with @)
News
Development Economics at the University of Tokyo website open
Peruvian Amazon Rural Livelihoods and Poverty (PARLAP) Covid-19 Survey policy brief ready
New work
<NEW> Takasaki, Yoshito. 2024. “Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia.” Journal of Development Economics 169: 103277.
<NEW> Zayonc, Danel, Oliver T. Coomes, Brian E. Robinson, Yoshito Takasaki, and Christian Abizaid. 2024. “Community characteristics best predict hunting and game harvests in wester Amazonian forests.” (under review).
<NEW> Poissant, David, Oliver T. Coomes, Brian E. Robinson, Yoshito Takasaki, and Christian Abizaid. 2024. "Livelihoods and poverty in small-scale fisheries in western Amazonia." Fisheries Management and Ecology 31(1): e12651.
<NEW> Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. 2024. "Tropical forests provide gendered insurance against illness." Land Economics 100(2): 314-332.
Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. 2023. "Tropical forests provide insurance against COVID-19." Ecology & Society 28(3): 8.
Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. 2023. "Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species." (under review)
Tsuda, Shunsuke, Yoshito Takasaki, and Mari Tanaka. 2023. “Human and nature: Economies of density and conservation in the Amazon rainforest.”
Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T., Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. 2022. "Impacts of food assistance under COVID-19 pandemic in poor remote communities." (under review)
Abizaid, Christian, Yoshito Takasaki, and Oliver T. Coomes. 2021. " Resultados de encuestas sobre el COVID-19 en poblaciones rurales de la Amazonía Peruana." (under review)
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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)