Mitani-Lab
Members 2024 AY
Md. Habibur Rahman (JSPS PD Fellow)
Ao Liu (D3, JSPS DC2 Fellow)
Hitomi Nakayama (D1)
Shohei Nonoyama (M2, exchanged to the University of Gottingen)
Rika Ozaki (M2)
Wenrui Jang (M1, 10.01.2023-)
Hinako Yano (M1)
Shuma Kitamura (M1)
Mayuri Katai (M1)
Yoh Takeo (B4)
Yu-Ching Shen (D3)
Kayako Nagasawa (M1)
Yun-Cih Chang (Visiting graduate student from National Taiwan University)
Kirara Honma (moved to the Univ. of Bonn for her Ph.D.)
April 26
Yun-Cih: Weather shocks on farmers' adaption behaviors: exploring asymmetric impacts and experience moderation
Habib: Field activities for the study on poverty alleviation and social cohesion through sustainable forest management
April 12
Guidance
Members 2023 AY
Md. Habibur Rahman (JSPS PD Fellow)
Ao Liu (D2)
Kirara Honma (M3, back from the University of Gottingen, moved to the Univ. of Bonn for her Ph.D.)
Hitomi Nakayama (M3, back from the IPB University, Indonesia)
Shohei Nonoyama (M1)
Rika Ozaki (M1)
Wenrui Jang (M1, 10.01.2023-)
Hinako Yano (B4))
Yu-Ching Shen (D2)
Kayako Nagasawa (B4)
Yoh Takeo (B3)
Hsiang-Ming Huang (Visiting graduate student from National Chung-Hsing University (NCHU) in Taiwan)
Xiaoyang Jin (Visiting graduate student from Hauzhong Agricultural University)
Marina Gianntsos (Visiting graduate student from the University of Alberta)
February 2
Hitomi Nakayama: Female participation in social forestry: A case study in Java Island, Indonesia
January 12
Hisang-Ming Huang: GHG emissions of raw milk production
Rika Ozaki: Public acceptance of carbon tax in Thailand
January 5
Shohei Nonoyama: Rubino et al., 2022 "Improving communications to increase NIPF landowner participation in forest certification programs," Forest
December 22
Yu-Ching: How does the farmland market respond to a weather shock?
Wenrui: CPR experiments in the fields
December 7
Ao Liu: Peer effects on vaccine uptake
November 24
Huang: Calculation of GHG emissions of raw milk production
Ao Liu: Social interaction complete information models
November 12-13
A field trip to Kumakogen, Ehime
November 10
Yu-Ching Shen: The impact of municipal mergers on river water quality
Hitomi Nakayama: Female participation in social forestry management
October 27
Honor's thesis midterm presentation (Hinako Yano, Kayako Nagasawa)
Summary of undergraduate studies by Wenrui Jang
October 20
Kyoto-Kassel Workshop on Environmental Economics
October 6
Guidance
August 4
Kirara Honma
How to mitigate climate shock impacts on child nutritional status in rural Bangladesh: Does household labor allocation have a role to play?
July 28
Hinako Yano
Dutz, D., Huitfeldt, I., Lacouture, S., Mogstad, M., Torgovitsky, A. and Van Dijk, W., 2021. Selection in Surveys: Using Randomized Incentives to Detect and Account for Nonresponse Bias (No. w29549). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Shohei Nonoyama
Group discussion on the introduction
July 14
Hitomi Nakayama
Progress report
Katai (Waseda University)
Research proposal
July 7
Marina Gianntsos (Univ of Alberta)
Comparative Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Flood Risk Reduction Preferences (Canada and Japan)
Yohei Mitani
Choice architect meets PES design
June 30
Shohei Nonoyama
Group discussion on structuring the introduction
Yohei Mitani
Frontier in survey experiments
June 23
Yohei Mitani
Frontier in online experiments and survey experiments (Introduction)
Md. Habibur Rahman
Research concept on Rohingya refugee and host community conflict over resource use and poverty alleviation in Bangladesh
June 9
Yu-Ching Shen
Municipal Mergers and River Water Quality Improvements
Hinako Yano
Lit review survey experiments
June 2 12:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Xiaoyang Jin
Dialect consistency and corporate fraud
May 26 12:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Marina Gianntsos (Univ of Alberta)
Homeowner Preferences for Property-Level Flood Protection
Hinako Yano
Review of Learning Rates
Cavallo, A., Cruces, G., and Perez-Truglia, R. (2017) ‘Inflation expectations, learning, and supermarket prices: Evidence from survey experiments’, American Economic Journal. Macroeconomics, 9(3), 1-35. DOI: 10.1257/mac.20150147.
Roth, C. and Wohlfart, J. (2018) “‘How Do Expectations about the Macroeconomy Affect Personal Expectations and Behavior?’, Review of Economics and Statstics. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3016052.
May 12 12:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Nonoyama, Yano, Ao
Haaland, I., Roth, C. and Wohlfart, J., 2023. Designing information provision experiments. Journal of economic literature, 61(1), pp.3-40
April 28 12:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Erika Christie Berle (Univ of Stavanger)
Erika Christie Berle and Tom Brokel, "What you read is what you see? Wind turbines in the German news."
Kirara Honma
Kirara Honma, "Labor allocation, climate shocks, and child nutritional status: Evidence from rural Bangladesh."
April 21 12:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Hitomi Nakayama
Research proposal: Does social forestry contribute to income stability and sustainable forest usage? Evidence from Tombo village and Cibulao village
Hinako Yano
A review of "Englander, G. (Forthcoming) 'Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru's Anchoveta Fishery,' American Economic Journal: Economic Policy."
April 7 13:15-14:45 (at E220)
Guidance and progress sharing
Members 2022 AY
Md. Habibur Rahman (JSPS PD Fellow)
Ao Liu (D1)
Kirara Honma (M2, currently exchanged to the University of Gottingen)
Hitomi Nakayama (M2, currently exchanged to the IPB University, Indonesia)
Sayeeda Tasmin (M1)
Kyoka Asahina (B4)
Shohei Nonoyama (B4)
Rika Ozaki (B4)
Soyoka Okamura (B4)
Yu-Ching Shen (D1)
Hinako Yano (B3)
Yoh Takeo (B2)
March 10 12:00-14:45 (Lunch and at E220 and Zoom)
Md. Habib Rahman "Oil palm and rubber-driven deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia and efforts toward zero deforestation commitments"
February 13 14:00-15:30 (at E220 and Zoom)
Honor's thesis practice final defense
Kyoka Asahina, Econometric analysis on migration in Japan
Rika Ozaki, Carbon tax acceptance by revenue use in developing countries
Soyoka Okamura, Effects of environmental regulation on farmers and heterogeneity by the regulation cost: Evidence from sugarcane production in Thailand
Shohei Nonoyama, Does nudging about profit enhance forest owners' willingness to participate in a forest management program? Evidence from an RCT
December 23 13:15- (at E220 and Zoom)
Hinako Yano
Bartoš, V., Bauer, M., Chytilová, J. and Matějka, F., 2016. Attention discrimination: Theory and field experiments with monitoring information acquisition. American Economic Review, 106(6), pp.1437-75.
Maćkowiak, B., Matějka, F. and Wiederholt, M., 2021. Rational inattention: A review.
December 9 13:15- (at E220 and Zoom)
Habib Rahman
Systematic review on framed field experiments of community-based natural resource managements
December 2 13:15- (at E220 and Zoom)
Ao Liu
Peer effects on Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake
November 25 13:15- (at E220 and Zoom)
Progress reports by all members
November 11 13:15- (at E220 and Zoom)
Honor's thesis mid-term presentation practice session (Kyoka, Shohei, Rika, Soyoka)
November 4 13:15- (at E220 and Zoom)
Habib Rahman
Self-introduction and research plan
Kirara Honma
Labor allocation and child nutrition (progress of master thesis)
October 14 13:00- (at E220 and Zoom)
Hinako Yano
Farmers’ Behaviors and Adoptions of Environmental Sustainable Agricultural practices - A review of “Behavioural factors affecting the adoption of sustainable farming practices: a policy oriented review”
Dessart, F.J., Barreiro-Hurlé, J. and van Bavel, R., 2019. Behavioural factors affecting the adoption of sustainable farming practices: a policy-oriented review. European Review of Agricultural Economics.
September 28 16:30- (via Zoom)
SEEPS Presentation Practice Session: Ao Liu, Sayeeda Tasmin, Shohei Nonoyama
September 16 16:45- (via Zoom)
Yu-Ching Shen
August 26 13:30- (at E220 and Zoom)
Hideki Shimada
August 18 13:00-14:15 (via Zoom)
Ao Liu
Liu A. and Mitani Y. Peer's behavior or common shocks: Evidence from Covid-19 vaccine take-up.
August 5 14:00-15:30 (at E220 and Zoom)
Kirara Honma
Calderon, A., Fouka, V. and Tabellini, M., 2021. Racial diversity and racial policy preferences: The Great Migration and civil rights (No. w28965). National Bureau of Economic Research.
July 29 13:45-15:15
Shohei Nonoyama
Chabe-Ferret, S., Le Coent, P., Reynaud, A., Subervie, J. and Lepercq, D., 2019. Can we nudge farmers into saving water? Evidence from a randomised experiment. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 46(3), pp.393-416.
July 22 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Sayeeda Tasmin
Casey, K., 2018. Radical decentralization: does community-driven development work?. Annual Review of Economics, 10, pp.139-163.
July 8 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Ao Liu
Carlin, P., Dixon, B.E., Simon, K.I., Sullivan, R. and Wing, C., 2022. How Undervalued is the Covid-19 Vaccine? Evidence from Discrete Choice Experiments and VSL Benchmarks (No. w30118). National Bureau of Economic Research.
July 1 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Research proposal presentations (by Yoh Takeo, Yu-Ching Shen)
June 24 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Soyoka Okamura
Okamura and Miura, "Do farmers manage climate risk? Evidence from Zambia"
June 10 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Research abstract presentations (by Sayeeda, Ao, Shohei)
June 3 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Progress reports (by Soyoka, Shohei)
May 27 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Brief introduction of research interests (by Hinako)
Progress reports (by Soyoka, Shohei, Yu-Ching)
May 13 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Shohei Nonoyama
Wallander, S., Ferraro, P. and Higgins, N., 2017. Addressing participant inattention in federal programs: a field experiment with the conservation reserve program. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 99(4), pp.914-931
Yu-Ching Shen
JSPS Proposal
May 6 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Brief introduction of research interests (by Kirara and Yoh)
Yu-Ching Shen
Lipscomb, M. and Mobarak, A. M. 2017. Decentralization and pollution spillovers: Evidence from the re-drawing of county borders in Brazil, Review of Economic Studies, 84(1): 464-502.
April 22 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Brief introduction of research interestes (by Sayeeda, Soyoka, and Rika)
April 15 13:15-14:45 (at E220 and Zoom)
Brief introduction of research interests (by Ao, Yu-Ching, Shohei, and Hitomi)
April 8 13:15- (via Zoom)
Guidance on research ethics and academic writing etc.
Members 2021 AY
Masao Fukutomi (D3, JSPS Research Fellow DC1)
Ao Liu (M2)
Kirara Honma (M1)
Hitomi Nakayama (M1)
Mayu Tadachi (B4)
Kyoka Asahibna (B3)
Shohei Nonoyama (B3)
Rika Ozaki (B3)
Soyoka Okamura (B3)
Sayeeda Tasmin (Research student)
March 18 13:15-14:45 (via Zoom)
Yoh Takeo
Falk, A., Andre, P., Boneva, T. and Chopra, F., 2021. Fighting climate change: The role of norms, preferences, and moral values. CESifo Working Paper No 9175.
March 18 11:00-12:30 (via Zoom)
Shohei Nonoyama
Palm-Forster, L.H. and Messer, K.D., 2021. Experimental and behavioral economics to inform agri-environmental programs and policies. In Handbook of Agricultural Economics (Vol. 5, pp. 4331-4406).
March 4 13:15-15:00 (via Zoom)
Hitomi Nakayama
Burgess, R., Hansen, M., Olken, B.A., Potapov, P. and Sieber, S., 2012. The political economy of deforestation in the tropics. The Quarterly journal of economics, 127(4), pp.1707-1754.
February 24 13:15-15:00 (via Zoom)
Soyoka Okamura
Sanders, N. & Barreca, A., "Adaptation to Environmental Change: Agriculture and the Unexpected Incidence of the Acid Rain Program," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2022, 14(1): 373-401.
February 10 14:15-15:30 (via Zoom)
Mayu Tadachi
Misperception and fathers' parental leave-taking
February 4 13:15-14:45 (via Zoom)
Ao Liu
Linking VSL and economic preferences with dynamically optimized sequential experimentation (DOSE)
January 21 13:15-14:45 (via Zoom)
Kirara Honma
Research proposal
December 24 12:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Lunch
Mayu Tadachi
Misperception and fathers' parental leave-taking
December 10 12:15-13:15 (@Zoom)
Masao Fukutomi
Ph D. Defense (Round 2)
December 3 13:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Masao Fukutomi
Ph D. Defense (Practice 1)
November 26 13:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Kirara Honma & Hitomi Nakayama
Proposal discussion
Soyoka Okamura
Survey design (network elicitation in Zambian villages)
November 19 13:15-14:45 @Zoom
Rika Ozaki & Kyoka Asahina
Proposal discussions (Motivation & RQs)
November 5 13:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Soyoka Okamura & Shohei Nonoyama
Proposal discussions (Big picture RQs)
October 29 13:15-14:45 (@E220 & Zoom)
Mayu Tadachi
Mid-term presentation (Misperception & parental leave take-up by fathers)
October 22 13:15-14:45
Ao Liu
Master thesis proposal on VSL
October 15 13:00-14:30
Gauidance
Research ethics (JSPS), Writing economics (Harvard)
September 24 13:00-14:30
Mayu Tadachi
Bursztyn, L. & Yang, D. Y. (2021). Misperceptions about others. NBER WP No. w29168.
September 10 13:00-14:30
Kirara Honma
The effect of ethnic diversity on voting behavior: Evidence from Zambia
August 13 13:00-14:30
Soyoka Okamura
Banerjee et al. (2021). Selecting the most effective nudge: Evidence from a large-scale experiment on immunization. NBER WP No. 28726.
August 11 13:00-14:30
Masao Fukutomi
Müller, D. (2019). The anatomy of distributional preferences with group identity. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 166, 785-807.
July 16 13:15-14:45
Mayu Tadachi
Research proposal (2nd try)
Hitomi Nakayama
Leone, M. (2019). Women as decision makers in community forest management: Evidence from Nepal. Journal of Development Economics, 138, 180-191.
July 2 13:15-15:30
Ao Liu
Herrera-Araujo, D., & Rochaix, L. (2020). Does the Value per Statistical Life vary with age or baseline health? Evidence from a compensating wage study in France. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 103, 102338.
Mayu Tadachi
Babcock, L., Recalde, M. P., Vesterlund, L., & Weingart, L. (2017). Gender differences in accepting and receiving requests for tasks with low promotability. American Economic Review, 107(3), 714-47.
June 4 13:15-14:45
Kirara Honma
Tonini, S. and Zhang, P. (2020) Ethnic diversity and labour market outcomes: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa, working paper.
May 28 13:15-14:30
Hitomi Nakayama
Lundberg, S., Pollak, R.A., and Stearns, J. (2016) Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing, Journal of Economic Perspectives 30 (2): 79-102.
May 22 13:15-14:30
Mayu Tadachi
Juhn, C. and McCue, K. (2017) Specialization Then and Now: Marriage, Children, and the Gender Earnings Gap across Cohorts, Journal of Economic Perspectives 31 (1): 183-204.
May 7 13:15-14:45
Ao Liu
JSPS Proposal (1st round)
Soyoka Okamura
Greenstone & Hanna (2014) Environmental regulations, air and water pollution, and infant mortality in India, Ammerican Economic Review 104 (10), 3038-3072.
April 30 13:15-14:45
Hitomi Nakayama
Gender norm in informal care provision
Mayu Tadachi
Research proposals (1st round)
April 24 13:15-14:45
Kirara Honma
Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization & Crossing Party Lines in Zambia
Yohei Mitani
Is PD still a dilemma for Japanese rural villagers?
April 16 13:15-14:00
Guidance
Research ethics (JSPS); Writing Economics (Harvard)
Members 2020
Hideki Shimada (D3, JSPS Research Fellow DC2)
Masao Fukutomi (D2, JSPS Research Fellow DC1)
Naoya Yukizaki (M2)
Ao Liu (M1)
Kirara Honma (B4)
Hitomi Nakayama (B4)
Satoshi Terai (B4)
March 26 13:00-16:00
Okamura-Nakayama-Honma-Liu
Stata do file coding exercises (supervised by H. Shimada)
March 12 13:00-14:30
Hideki Shimada
Lewbel, A. (2019). The identification zoo: Meanings of identification in econometrics. Journal of Economic Literature, 57(4), 835-903.February 12 13:00-15:30
February 12 13:00-15:30
Honma-Terai-Nakayama
Honor's thesis defenses
February 5 13:00-14:30
Yukizaki
Master thesis defence
January 8 13:00-14:30
Ao Liu
Chang et al (2018), "Something in the air: pollusion and the demand for health insurance," RES 85: 1609-1634
December 18 12:15-14:30
Masao Fukutomi
Fukutomi and Mitani, "Being in a group, no guilty feelings anymore for the opponent"
December 11 12:15-14:30
Hideki Shimada
Econometric analysis of social interactions and economic incentives in conservation schemes
November 13 12:15-13:30
Satoshi Terai
Bonsang and Dohmen (2015), "Risk attitude and cognitive aging," JEBO 112: 112-126
November 6 13:00-14:30
Yukizaki Naoya
Research proposal
Hideki Shimada
Short talk slide
October 30 12:15-14:45
Masao Fukutomi
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah. "Are risk preferences stable?." Journal of Economic Perspectives 32.2 (2018): 135-54.
Terai-Nakayama-Honma
Honor's thesis midterm presentations
October 23 12:15-14:45
Hitomi Nakayama & Satoshi Terai
JSTAR Literature Review
Hideki Shimada
Research summary presentation
October 2 Hitomi Nakayama
JLPS
September 25 Hideki Shimada
Shimada "Do monetary rewards for spatial coordination enhance participation in a forest incentive program?"
September 11 Satoshi Terai
JSTAR
July 31 Fukutomi Masao
Hossain, Tanjim, and Ryo Okui. (2013) "The binarized scoring rule." Review of Economic Studies 80.3 : 984-1001.
July 31 Honma Kirara
Casey, Katherine. (2015) "Crossing party lines: The effects of information on redistributive politics." American Economic Review 105.8 : 2410-48.
July 24 Terai Satoshi
Dohmen, Thomas, et al. (2011) "Individual risk attitudes: Measurement, determinants, and behavioral consequences." Journal of the European Economic Association 9.3 : 522-550.
July 24 Nakayama Hitomi
Bursztyn, Leonardo, Alessandra L. González, and David Yanagizawa-Drott. (2020) "Misperceived social norms: Women working outside the home in saudi arabia." American Economic Review .
July 17 Hideki Shimada
Banerjee, Abhijit, et al. (2014) "Using gossips to spread information: theory and evidence from a randomized controlled trial." QJE.
July 3 Ao Liu
Viscusi, W. Kip, and Joseph E. Aldy. (2003) "The value of a statistical life: a critical review of market estimates throughout the world." Journal of risk and uncertainty 27.1 : 5-76.
June 12&19 Terai Satoshi
Weber, Elke U., Ann‐Renee Blais, and Nancy E. Betz. (2002) "A domain‐specific risk‐attitude scale: Measuring risk perceptions and risk behaviors." Journal of behavioral decision making 15.4: 263-290.
June 5 Honma Kirara
Afridi, Farzana, Sherry Xin Li, and Yufei Ren. (2015) "Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system." Journal of Public Economics 123: 17-29.
May 22&28 Nakayama Hitomi
Bordalo, Pedro, et al. (2019) "Beliefs about gender." American Economic Review 109.3: 739-73.
May 15 Yohei Mitani
Paul Niehaus "Doing research"
JSPS "For the sound development of science" + research ethics
Members 2019
Hideki Shimada (D2)
Masao Fukutomi (D1)
Takuro Metoki (M2)
Naoya Yukizaki (M1)
Yuto Ando (B4)
Rio Takayasu (B4)
Yuta Uesawa (B4)
Past Supervision
Takuro Metoki (MA, 2020) Social capital
Yuto Ando (BA, 2020) Time preference; Aging
Rio Takayasu (BA, 2020) Risk preference
Yuta Uesawa (BA, 2020) Nudge
Kohei Suzuki (MA, 2014; Ph.D, 2017) Private land conservation; Coordination games
JSPS Research Fellow DC2 2015-2017
First placement: Boston consulting
Kana Moriyama (MA, 2015) Field experiment
Katsuma Miyamoto (BA, 2013) Wildfire
July 23: Literature Review
Stoddard, O. and Leibbrandt, A. (2014) "An experimental study on the relevance and scope of nationality as a coordination device," Economic Inquiry
Cinyabuguma, M., Page, T., and Putterman, L. (2005) "Cooperation under the threat of expulsion in a public goods experiment," Journal of Public Economics 89: 1421-1435.
Dugar, S. (2010) "Nonmonetary sanctions and rewards in an experimental coordination game," Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization 73: 377-386.
Solow, J. and Kirkwood, N. (2002) "Group identity and gender in public goods experiments," Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization 48: 403-412.
Maier-Rigaud, F.P., Martinsson, P., and Staffiero, G. (2010) "Ostracism and the provision of a public good: experimental evidence," Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization 73: 387-395.
July 28: Literature Review
Cardenas, J. C. and Carpenter, J. (2008) "Behavioral development economics: Lessons from field labs in the developing world," Journal of Development Studies 44:311-338.
Whitt, S. and Wilson, R.K. (2007) "The dictator game, fairness and ethnicity in Postwar Bosnia," American Journal of Political Science 51(3):655-668.
Cardneas, J-C. (2003) "Real wealth and experimental cooperation: experiments in the field lab," Journal of Development Economics 70(2): 263-289.
Bahry, D.L. and Wilson, R.K. (2006) "Confusion or fairness in the field? Rejections in the ultimatum game under the strategy method," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60(1):37-54.
Henrich, J. et al. (2001) "In search of homo economics: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies," American Economic Review P&P 91(2): 73-78.
Velez, M. A. et al. (2009) "What motivates common pool resource users? Experimental evidence from the field," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 70: 485-497.
Krupka, E. L. and Weber, R. A. (2013) "Identifying social norms using coordination games: Why does dictator game sharing vary?" Journal of the European Economic Association 11(3): 495-524.
Chen, Y. and Li, X. S. (2009) "Group identity and social preferences," American Economic Review 99(1): 431-457.