This is a portal site of development economics network at the University of Tokyo. It provides information about faculty, courses, graduate programs, and institutes related to development economics for current or prospective graduate students and researchers. Our network nested into the university has strength in its broad coverage ranging from humanities and social sciences to natural sciences, sustainability science, engineering, spatial information and data science, public health, and medical sciences. Our network can provide students and researchers with a variety of interdisciplinary research opportunities in development economics.
For more information, please go to the website of each faculty, program, and institute.
Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy
Specialization: Labor/Development Economics; Applied Econometrics
Research Interests: Health; Education; Informality; Gender inequality; Program evaluation; Causal inference; Mediation analysis
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics
Specialization: Empirical microeconomics
Research Interests: Labor, development, health, education, child development, experiments, structural estimation, dynamic discrete choice
Professor, Department of International Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
Specialization: Microeconomic Theory; Financial Economics
Research Interests: Banking; Financial markets and regulations; Heterogeneous beliefs; Immigration; Insurance; Rare disasters; Risk sharing; Roles of finance in economic development; Social welfare; Uncertainty; Welfare criteria
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Specialization: Agricultural Economics; Development Economics; Natural Resource Management
Research Interests: Technology adoption; Market development; Rural finance; Insurance; Health and nutrition; Irrigation management; Forest management
Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank
Specialization: Development Economics; Development Policies; Field Experiments; Asian Economies
Research Interests: Social protection; Geography and trade; Satellite imageries and CDR data; Education; Health; Behavior; Disasters and economic crises; Growth and structural transformation; Innovation and technology
Professor, Institute of Social Science
Specialization: Development Economics
Research Interests: Natural disaster; Social capital; Crime; Non-cognitive skill
Professor, Department of International Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
Specialization: Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Field Experiments
Research Interests: Poverty, Industrial development, Technology adoption, High-value agriculture/ aquaculture, Globalization, Standards and certifications, Market structure, Spillovers, Social network, Peer effects, Productivity, Cognitive and non-cognitive skills, Impact evaluations
Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy
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
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics
Specialization: Labor economics; Development economics; International trade
Research Interests: Private sector development; Firms; Labor markets; Industrial relations; Labor standards; Productivity; Markup; Management Practices; Leadership; Human capital
Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy
Specialization: Development Macroeconomics; International Finance
Research Interests: Finance and Growth; Financial System; Investment and Productivity; Consumption and Savings; Macroeconomic Development; Public Economics