Publications

Political Economy

Institutions and political economy of development in Cambodia

• Kogure, Katsuo and Yoshito Takasaki, 2016. “Conflict, institutions, and economic behavior: Legacies of the Cambodian genocide” CIRJE Discussion Paper F-1034. (under review)

• Kogure, Katsuo and Yoshito Takasaki. 2014. “Long-term effects of the Cambodian genocide on education” The Economic Review (Keizaikenkyu) 65(1): 42-55 (in Japanese).

Kinship in rural Fiji

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2022. “Chiefly patronage and schooling” Journal of Development Studies. 58(12): 2503-2525.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2022. “Impacts of applying for international labor migration before migration occurs” World Development 157: 105965.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2011. “Groups, networks, and hierarchy in household private transfers: Evidence from Fiji” Oxford Development Studies 39(1): 97-130.

Disability

Ethnicity, disability, and vocational training in Rwanda

• Onuki, Mayuko, Keitaro Aoyagi, and Yoshito Takasaki. 2022. “Personal intergroup contact between different groups of ex-combatants and civilians: Evidence from a behavioural experiment in Rwanda” European Journal of Social Psychology 52(1): 1-17. 

• Igei, Kengo, Kana Takio, Keitaro Aoyagi, and Yoshito Takasaki. 2021. “Vocational training for demobilized ex-combatants with disabilities in Rwanda” Journal of Development Effectiveness 13(4): 360-384 

Poverty, disability, and vocational training in Cambodia

• <NEW> Takasaki, Yoshito. 2024. “Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia.” Journal of Development Economics 169: 103277.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2020. “Impacts of disability on poverty: Quasi-experimental evidence from landmine amputees in Cambodia” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 180: 85-107 

Health

Psychic costs of maternal health care in rural Nigeria

• Sato, Ryoko and Yoshito Takasaki. 2021. “Vaccine hesitancy and refusal: Experimental evidence from rural northern Nigeria.” Vaccines 9(9): 1023.

• Sato, Ryoko and Yoshito Takasaki. 2021. "Advantages and disadvantages of institutional delivery and home delivery: A qualitative study in northern Nigeria" European Journal of Preventive Medicine 9(1): 19-24.

• Sato, Ryoko and Yoshito Takasaki. 2021. “Backfire effect of salient information on vaccine take-up: Experimental evidence from scared-straight intervention in rural northern Nigeria” Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 17(6): 1703-1713. 

• Sato, Ryoko and Yoshito Takasaki. 2019. “Peer effects on vaccination behavior: Experimental evidence from rural Nigeria” Economic Development and Cultural Change. 68(1): 93-129 

• Sato, Ryoko and Yoshito Takasaki. 2019. “Psychic vs. economic barriers to vaccine take-up: Evidence from a field experiment in Nigeria” World Bank Economic Review. 33(3): 622-642 (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8347)

Antenatal care in rural Nigeria

• Takasaki, Yoshito and Ryoko Sato. 2018. “Is antenatal care effective?: Experimental evidence from rural Nigeria” CIRJE Discussion Paper F-1107 (under review)

• Takasaki, Yoshito and Ryoko Sato. 2019. “An experiment on sequential utilization: Antenatal care in rural Nigeria (under review) (formerly "Short-run incentive and information in sequential adoptions: An antenatal care experiment in rural Nigeria" CIRJE Discussion Paper F-1070)

Natural Disaster

World Development Special Issue: Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Development (Guest Editors: Yasuyuki Sawada and Yoshito Takasaki)

• Sawada, Yasuyuki and Yoshito Takasaki. 2017. "Editorial" World Development 94: 1.

• Sawada, Yasuyuki and Yoshito Takasaki. 2017. “Natural disaster, poverty, and development: an introduction” World Development 94: 2-15.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2017. “Post-disaster informal risk sharing against illness” World Development 94: 64-74.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2017. “Do natural disasters decrease the gender gap in schooling?” World Development 94: 75-89.

Natural disaster and community in rural Fiji

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2018. “Risky coping” Journal of Development Studies. 54(3): 501-522.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2016. “Cyclones alter risk sharing against illness through networks and groups: Evidence from Fiji” In Eric C. Jones and A.J. Faas, eds., Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation, pp.209-222, Elsevier.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2016. “Learning from disaster: Community-based marine protected areas in Fiji” Environment and Development Economics. 21(1): 53-77.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2014. “How is disaster aid allocated within poor villages? Risk sharing and social hierarchy” Journal of International Development. 26(8): 1097-1114.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2012. “Natural disasters, gender and handicrafts” Journal of Development Studies 48(1): 115-132.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2011. “Do local elites capture natural disaster reconstruction funds?” Journal of Development Studies 47(9): 1281-1298.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2011. “Distributing disaster aid in the village: kinship, mutual help, and hierarchy” The Economic Review (Keizaikenkyu) 62(2): 141-152 (in Japanese).

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2011. “Do the commons help augment mutual insurance among the poor?” World Development 39(3): 429-438.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2011. “Targeting cyclone relief within the village: Kinship, sharing, and capture” Economic Development and Cultural Change 59(2): 387-416.

Tropical Forest

Peruvian Amazon Rural Livelihood and Poverty (PARLAP) 

• <NEW> Abizaid, Christian, Yoshito Takasaki, and Oliver T. Coomes. forthcoming. "Casos y muertes por COVID-19 y medidas de protección adoptadas en comunidades rurales indígenas y no-indígenas de la Amazonía durante los primeros meses de la pandemia: COVID-19 en poblaciones rurales indígenas y no-indígenas amazónicas." Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública.

• <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, Christian Abizaid, and Oliver T. Coomes 2022. "COVID-19 contagion across remote communities in tropical forests" Scientific Reports 12: 20727.

• Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, , Christian Abizaid, and Margaret Kalacska. 2022. “Landscape-scale concordance between local ecological knowledge for tropical wild species and remote sensing of land cover” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119(40): e2116446119

• Coomes, Oliver T., Yoshito Takasaki, and Christian Abizaid. 2022. “Sparing of Amazonian old-growth forests with floodplain access” Nature Sustainability 5: 965-972. 

• Research Brief: Floodplain agriculture can prevent the disturbance of rainforests in Amazonia" Nature Sustainability (2022)  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00953-1.

• Langill, Jennifer C, Christian Abizaid, Yoshito Takasaki, and Oliver T. Coomes. 2022. "Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards: evidence from extreme flooding in western Amazonia" Global Environmental Change 76: 102585

• Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T., Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. 2022. "Impacts of food assistance under COVID-19 pandemic in poor remote communities." (under review)

• Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. 2022. "COVID-19 information and self-protective behaviors among rural communities in tropical forests" BMC Public Health 22: 1394.

• Abizaid, Christian, Oliver T. Coomes, and Yoshito Takasaki. 2022. “Lifeways and currents of change in the Peruvian Amazon: A 1000 km boat journey down the Ucayali River” Focus on Geography 65. (lots of photos from our fieldwork)  

• Kalacska, Margaret, J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora, Oliver T. Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki, and Christian Abizaid. 2022. “Multi-temporal surface water classification for four major rivers from the Peruvian Amazon.” Data 7(1):6.

• Coomes, Oliver T., Margaret Kalacska, Yoshito Takasaki, Christian Abizaid, and Tristan Grupp. 2022. “Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia.” Environmental Research Letters. 17: 014024. 

• Coomes, Oliver T., Santiago Rivas Panduro, Christian Abizaid, and Yoshito Takasaki. 2021. “Geolocation of unpublished archaeological sites in the Peruvian Amazon.” Scientific Data 8: 290.

• Coomes, Oliver T., Yuanyu Cheng, Yoshito Takasaki, and Christian Abizaid. 2021. “What drives clearing of primary forest over secondary forests in tropical shifting cultivation systems? Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon” Ecological Economics 189: 107170.

• Takasaki, Y., O.T. Coomes and C. Abizaid. 2021. "COVID-19 en las comunidades rurales de la Amazonía Peruana: Resumen de política", Proyecto sobre Pobreza y Formas de Vida Rural en la Amazonía Peruana (PARLAP), Universidad de Tokio, Tokio, Japón. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4683829

• Takasaki, Y., O.T. Coomes and C. Abizaid. 2021. "COVID-19 among rural peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: Policy brief". Peruvian Amazon Rural Livelihoods and Poverty (PARLAP) Project, University of Tokyo, Japan. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4683344

• Oliver T., Christian Abizaid, Yoshito Takasaki, and Santiago Rivas Panduro. 2021. “The Lower Ucayali River in prehistory: Cultural chronology, archeological evidence and a recently discovered Pre-Columbian site” Geographical Review 111(1): 145-167.

• Coomes, Oliver T., Yoshito Takasaki, and Christian Abizaid. 2020. “Impoverishment of local wild resources in western Amazonia: a large-scale community survey of local ecological knowledge” Environmental Research Letters 15(7): 074016.

• Cadieux, Nicolas, Margaret Kalacska, Oliver T. Coomes, Mari Tanaka, and Yoshito Takasaki. 2019. “A Python algorithm for shortest-path river network distance calculations considering river flow direction” Data 5(1): 8. 

• Abizaid, Christian, Oliver T. Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki, and J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora. 2018. “Rural social networks along Amazonian rivers: seeds, labor and soccer among communities on the Napo River, Peru” Geographical Review 198(1): 92-119. <2018 Geographical Review Best Paper Award>

• Coomes, Oliver T., Yoshito Takasaki, Christian Abizaid, and J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora. 2016. “Environmental and market determinants of economic orientation among rain forest communities: evidence from a large-scale survey in western Amazonia” Ecological Economics 129: 260-271.

• Webster K., Arroyo-Mora, J. P., Coomes, O. T., Takasaki, Y, and Abizaid C. 2016. “A cost path and network analysis methodology to calculate distances along a complex river network in the Peruvian Amazon” Applied Geography 73: 13-25.

Dynamic and spatial analyses of shifting cultivation in the Peruvian Amazon

• Coomes, Oliver T., Yoshito Takasaki, and Jeanine Rhemtulla. 2017. “What fate for swidden agriculture under land constraint in tropical forests?: Lessons from a long-term study in an Amazonian peasant community” Journal of Rural Studies 54: 39-51.

• Coomes, Oliver T., Yoshito Takasaki, and Jeanine Rhemtulla. 2016. “Forests as landscapes of social inequality: Tropical forest cover and land distribution among shifting cultivators” Ecology and Society 21(3): 20.

• Coomes, Oliver T., Yoshito Takasaki, and Jeanine Rhemtulla. 2011. “Land-use poverty traps identified in shifting cultivation systems shape long-term tropical forest cover” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(34): 13925-13930.

Social network in shifting cultivation in the Peruvian Amazon

• Abizaid, Christian, Oliver T. Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki, and Stéphanie Brisson. 2015. “Social network analysis of peasant agriculture: cooperative labor as gendered relational networks” The Professional Geographer. 67(3): 447-463.

• Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, Christian Abizaid, and Stéphanie Brisson. 2014. “An efficient nonmarket institution under imperfect markets:labor sharing for tropical forest clearing” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96(3): 711-732. (also included in AJAE Virtual Issue: Development Economics)

Resource extraction among shifting cultivators in the Peruvian Amazon

• Coomes, Oliver, Yoshito Takasaki, Christian Abizaid, and Bradford Barham. 2010. “Floodplain fisheries as natural insurance for the rural poor in tropical forest environments: evidence from Amazonia” Fisheries Management and Ecology 17(6): 513-521.

• Takasaki, Yoshito, Bradford L. Barham, and Oliver T. Coomes. 2010. “Smoothing income against cropflood losses in Amazonia: rain forest orrivers as a safety net?” Review of Development Economics 14(1): 48-63.

• Coomes, Oliver T., Bradford L. Barham, and Yoshito Takasaki. 2004. “Targeting conservation-development initiatives in tropical forests: insights from analyses of rain forest use and economic reliance among Amazonian peasants” Ecological Economics 51(1-2): 47-64.

• Takasaki, Yoshito, Bradford L. Barham, and Oliver T. Coomes. 2004. “Risk coping strategies in tropical forests: floods, illness, and resource extraction” Environment and Development Economics 9(2): 203-224.  

• Takasaki, Yoshito, Bradford L. Barham, and Oliver T. Coomes. 2001. “Amazonian peasants, rain forest use, and income generation: the role of wealth and geographical factors” Society and Natural Resources 14(4): 291-308.

• Takasaki, Yoshito, Bradford L. Barham, and Oliver T. Coomes. 2000. “Rapid rural appraisal in humid tropical forests: an asset possession-based approach and validation methods for wealth assessment among forest peasant households” World Development 28(11): 1961-1977.

• Takasaki, Yoshito, Bradford L. Barham, and Oliver T. Coomes. 2000. “Wealth accumulation and activity choice evolution among Amazonian forest peasant households” University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Staff Paper Series 434.

• Barham, Bradford L., Oliver T. Coomes, and Yoshito Takasaki. 1999. “Rain forest livelihoods: income generation, household wealth and forest use” Unasylva 50(198): 34-42. (also published in French and Spanish)

Spatial Analysis

Spatial data and program evaluation

• Kogure, Katsuo and Yoshito Takasaki, 2019. “GIS for empirical research design: An illustration with georeferenced point data” PLoS ONE 14(3): e02112316.  

Theory

Theory of shifting cultivation

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2013. “Deforestation, forest fallowing, and soil conservation in shifting cultivation” Theoretical Economics Letters 3(5A1): 30-38.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2012. “Economic models of shifting cultivation: a review” In Paulo Moutinho, ed., Deforestation Around the World, pp.351-372, Rijeka: InTech.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2007. “Dynamic household models offorest clearing under distinct land and labor market institutions: can agriculturalpolicies reduce tropical deforestation?” Environment and Development Economics 12(3): 423-443.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2006. “A model of shifting cultivation: can soil conservation reduce deforestation?” Agricultural Economics 35(2): 193-201.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2005. “How do better soil conservation measures affect deforestation in shifting cultivation?”

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2004. “Examining the impacts of capital, credits, and land markets on deforestation among tropical farmers” FASID, Discussion Papers Series on International Development Strategies, 2004-8-006.

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2004. “Linking deforestation and land degradation in slash-and-burn agriculture”

Other

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2013. “Randomized experiments on preventative health care among pregnant women and infants in Nigeria” PRIMCED Newsletter 6. (also published in Japanese)

• Takasaki, Yoshito. 2000. The Microdynamics of Conservation and Development in Tropical Forests. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Main advisor: Bradford L. Barham, Committee: Michael R. Carter, Jean-Paul Chavas). <2001 AAEA Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Honorable Mention>