Research

Economics Journal Papers

Communication and Coordination in Firms: A Lab-in-the-field Experiment with Small Manufacturers in Vietnam. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 119: 102470, 2025. (with Nam, V.H. and Sonobe, T.) 

Disentangling Anti-refugee Sentiment: An Empirical Investigation of the Rohingya Crisis, Economics Letters, 252: 112341, 2025. (with Higashida, K., Hossain, M.M., and Takahashi, R.)

From Hospitality to Hostility: Impact of the Rohingya Refugee Influx on the Sentiments of Host Communities, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 73(3): 1221–1249, 2025. (with Higashida, K., Hossain, M.M., Sujauddin, M., Takahashi, R., and Tanaka, K.)  

Are Social Norms an Obstacle to Honest Behavior? Theory and Experimental Evidence, Journal of Asian Economics, 97: 101875, 2025. (with Higashida, K., Hossain, M.M., Sujauddin, M., Takahashi, R., and Tanaka, K.)

Becoming a Chief through Leadership Experience: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, Atlantic Economic Journal, 52: 171–186, 2024. (with Higashida, K., Hossain, M.M., Takahashi, R., and Sujauddin, M.)

FDI, Production Networks, and Firm Behavior: Evidence from the South African Automotive Industry, World Economy, 47(3): 1247–1273, 2024. (with Barnes, J., Black, A., and Otsuka, K.)

Impact of Studying Abroad on Language Skill Development: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Japanese University Students, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 70, 2023. (with Nakamuro, M., Roever, C., Sasaki, M., and Yashima, T.)  

Medium-Run Impacts of Management Training in Garment Clusters, World Bank Economic Review, 34: s68–s71, 2020. (with Mhede, E.P., Nam, V.H., and Sonobe, T.)

Impacts of an ICT-Assisted Program on Attitudes and English Communicative Abilities: An Experiment in a Japanese High School, Asian Development Review, 37(2): 100–133, 2020. (with Sasaki, M. and Nakamuro, M.)

Who Participates in Free Business Training? The Case of Vietnamese SMEs, Journal of International Economics and Management, 20(2): 49–59, 2020. 

Short- and Medium-Run Impacts of Management Training: An Experiment in Tanzania, World Development, 114: 220–236, 2019. (with Mhede, E.P. and Sonobe, T.)

Informal Recycling and Social Preferences: Evidence from Household Survey Data in Vietnam, Resource and Energy Economics, 54: 109–124, 2018. (with  Yokoo, H. and Kawai, K.)

Do Natural Disasters Affect the Poor Disproportionately? Price Changes and Welfare Impact in the aftermath of Typhoon Milenyo in the Rural Philippines, World Development, 94: 16–26, 2017. (with Sakai, Y., Estudillo, J.P., Fuwa, N., and Sawada, Y.)

Middle-Income Traps in East Asia: An Inquiry into Causes for Slowdown in Income Growth, China Economic Review, 46: s3–s16, 2017. (with Otsuka, K. and Sonobe, T.)

Sustained Impacts of Kaizen Training , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 120: 189–206, 2015. (with Nam, V.H. and Sonobe, T.) 

Differences in Management Practices and Productivity in Micro and Small Enterprises in Industrial Clusters, Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy, 5(2), 2014. (with Sonobe, T. and Otsuka, K.)

Non-economics Journal Papers

Introducing Regression Discontinuity Design to Applied Linguistics: The Case of Japanese Government Study-Abroad Scholarships , Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 9(2): 217–244, 2024. (with Sasaki, M., Nakamuro, M., Roever, C., and Yashima, T.)

Validating a Test of L2 Routine Formulae to Detect Pragmatics Learning in Stay Abroad, Applied Pragmatics, 5(1): 41–63, 2023. (with Roever, C., Sasaki, M., Yashima, T., and Nakamuro, M.)

Disaster Aid Targeting and Self-Reporting Bias: Natural Experimental Evidence from the Philippines , Sustainability, 11(3), 2019. (with Fuwa, N., Kajisa, K., Sato, T., and Sawada, Y.)

Policy Briefs, Book Chapters, and Others

Challenges in Empirical Research in Economics: The Way Forward, In Otsuka, K., Kurosaki, T., Sawada, Y., and Sonobe, T. (Eds.) Next-Generation of Empirical Research in Economics. 2024. (with Otsuka, K. and Suzuki, A.) 

Economics Fieldwork, Japanese Association for Development Economics (JADE) Newsletter 7, 2023.

Boosting Industrial Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Through Management Training for MSMEs, T20 Policy Brief TF1-103, 2023. (with Abebe, G., Kairiza, T., Mhede, E.P., Mottaleb, K., Sonobe, T., and  Vu, H.N.)

Demographic Dynamics in a Rice Village in the Philippines from 1918 to 2018, Aoyama Journal of International Studies 8, 2021. (with Kajisa, K. and Sawada, Y.)

Industrial Policy, Industrial Development, and Structural Transformation in Asia and Africa, In Sugihara, K. and Otsuka, K. (Eds.) Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa. 2019. (with Shimada, G.) 

The East Laguna Village: Four Decades of Studies in a Filipino Village, PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series 18, 2012. (with Sawada, Y., Kajisa, K., Fuwa, N., Marciano, E.B., and Estudillo, J.P.)