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Hiroyuki Egami （江上弘幸）

Assistant Professor, Nihon University

egami.hiroyuki(at)nihon-u.ac.jp *My old email address, grips.ac.jp is not working.

Click here to download my CV @Sep 18 2024

Click here (researchmap) for the latest presentations (ゲーム関係の発表のリストはこちら）

Applied micro-econometrics, development economics, health economics, human behaviour and digital technology, video games.

Causal effect of video game play on mental well-being in Japan 2020-2022 (Hiroyuki Egami, Md Shafiur Rahman, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Chihiro Egami, and Takahisa Wakabayashi), Nature Human Behaviour, 2024; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01948-y

Mobile money use and healthcare utilization: evidence from rural Uganda (Hiroyuki Egami and Tomoya Matsumoto), Sustainability, 2020, 12(9), 3741; doi:10.3390/su12093741

Mobile money and shock-coping: Urban migrants and rural families in Bangladesh under the COVID-19 shock (with Tomoya Matsumoto and Yukichi Mano). Listed as a HIAS Discussion paper, as of Aug 2021.
Receiving maternal care in extreme weather: evidence of mobile money use in rural Uganda (with Tomoya Matsumoto). Draft paper in Sep 2020, prepared for the Annual Conference of Japan Health Economics Association.
Effective boost to fertility: evidence from operation of nuclear power plants in Japan (with Jorge Luis Garcia and Tong Wang). Draft paper in May 2020, prepared for the JEA Spring meeting 2020. Video of the presentation (14 min). Listed as a GRIPS Discussion paper.
Transforming Internal Remittances into Educational Investment: A Matching Funds Field Experiment using Mobile Money (with Tomoya Matsumoto and Yukichi Mano)

Receiving maternal care in extreme weather: evidence of mobile money use in rural Uganda. Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) Conference 2020: Economic Development in Africa, the University of Oxford, 2020

Short video summary uploaded for CSAE conference 2020 (5 min)

第34 回電気通信普及財団賞・佳作 (The 34th Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award “Honorable Mention”) (2019) Click here to see the award-winning paper.
医療経済学会第12 回研究大会・若手最優秀発表賞 (Best Paper Award for Young Researchers : The 12th Annual Conference of Japan Health Economics Association) (2017)

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (KAKENHI) (with Jorge Luis Garcia and Tong Wang (PI)), 2,200,000 JPY, 2018-2020. Click here to see the project outline.
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (KAKENHI), 3,100,000 JPY, 2018-2020. Click here to see the project outline.
電気通信普及財団・研究調査助成金 (The Telecommunication Advancement Foundation Research Grant), 4,000,000 JPY, 2018-2019.
財政・金融・金融法制研究基金・研究助成金 (Research Grant from the Finance of Public and Private sectors and Financial Legal System Research Fund of Japan), 300,000 JPY, 2018.
公益信託山田学術研究奨励基金・奨励金 (Research Grant from Yamada Academic Research Promotion Fund of the Public Interest Trust), 300,000 JPY, 2018.

Master of Arts in Advanced Policy Studies, Graduate School of Policy Studies, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2015-2017)
Master of Public Policy, The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago (2011-2013)
Bachelor of Economics, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo (2004-2007)

Email (old, server crashed): phd15410(at)grips.ac.jp

(new): egami.hiroyuki(at)nihon-u.ac.jp