Research

Journal Articles

Hisaki Kono and Tomomi Tanaka (2019) “Does Marriage Work as a Commitment Device?: Experimental Evidence from Vietnam” PLOS ONE 14(6) [Link]

John Hatfield, Charles Plott and Tomomi Tanaka (2016) "Price Controls, Non-Price Quality Competition, and the Nonexistence of Competitive Equilibrium", Games and Economic Behavior. Volume 99, p. 134-163 [Link]

Tomomi Tanaka and Colin Camerer (2016) “Trait perceptions influence economic out-group bias: lab and field evidence from Vietnam”, Experimental Economics. Volume 19 No. 3, p. 513–534 [Link]

Sera Linardi and Tomomi Tanaka (2013) "Competition as a Savings Incentive: A Field Experiment at a Homeless Shelter", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Volume 95, p. 240–251 [Link]

John Hatfield, Charles Plott and Tomomi Tanaka (2012) “Understanding Price Controls and Nonprice Competition with Matching Theory”, American Economic Review. Volume 102 No. 3, p. 371-375 [Link]

Tomomi Tanaka and Takeshi Murooka (2012) "Self-Control Problems and Consumption-Saving Decisions: Theory and Empirical Evidence”, Japanese Economic Review. Volume 63 Issue 1, p.23-37 [Link]

Tomomi Tanaka, Colin Camerer and Quang Nguyen (2010) " Risk and Time Preferences: Linking Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam", American Economic Review. Volume 100 No. 1, p. 557-571 [Link]

C. Mónica Capra, Tomomi Tanaka, Colin F. Camerer, Lauren Feiler, Veronica Sovero and Charles Noussair (2009) "The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps", Economic Journal. Volume 119 Issue 539, p. 977-1009 [Link]

Tomomi Tanaka (2007) "Resource Allocation with Spatial externalities: Experiments on Land Consolidation" B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, vol.7 Iss.1 Article 7 [Link]

Working Papers

Julian Jamison, Kevin Mcgee, Gbemisola Oseni, Julie Perng, Ryoko Sato, Tomomi Tanaka, and Renos Vakis. (2018) "The Relationship between Conflicts, Economic Shocks, and Death with Depression, Economic Activities, and Human Capital Investment in Nigeria". Policy Research working paper; No. WPS 8685. Washington, D.C. World Bank Group. [Link]

Hitoshi Matsushima, Tomomi Tanaka and Tomohisa Toyama (2013) "Behavioral Approach to Repeated Games with Private Monitoring" CARF Working Paper [Link]

Conference Paper

Ryan Engstrom, Dan Pavelesku, Tomomi Tanaka and Ayago Wambile (2019) "Mapping Poverty and Slums Using Multiple Methodologies in Accra, Ghana" IEEE [Link]

Book Chapters

Tomomi Tanaka, Colin Camerer and Quang Nguyen (2015) "Risk and Time Preferences: Linking Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam”, in “Handbook of Experimental Economics Behavioral Economics of Preferences, Choices, and Happiness” (S. Ikeda et al. eds), Springer, New York

Tomomi Tanaka and Colin Camerer (2009) "Status and Ethnicity in Vietnam: Evidence from Experimental Games" in "Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling" (Huan Liu ed), Springer, New York

C. Mónica Capra and Tomomi Tanaka (2008) "Communication and the Extraction of Natural Renewable Resources with Threshold Externalities" in "Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics" (Todd L. Cherry, Stephan Kroll and Jason F. Shogren, Eds), Routledge, New York

World Bank Reports

2018

Ghana - Priorities for Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity (SCD) [Report]

2017

Income Tax Collection and Non-Compliance in Ghana [Media coverage]

Monetary and Non-Monetary Poverty in Urban Slums in Accra: Combining Geospatial Data and Machine Learning to Study Urban Poverty [Media coverage]

The Impacts of External Funding for District Governments on Tax Collection and Public Goods Provision in Ghana[Link]

2016

Pathways to Prosperity in Rural Malawi [Report]

The Democratic Republic of Congo Poverty Assessment Report [Report]

The Uganda Poverty Assessment Report [Report]