Hitoshi Shigeoka

Upcoming

• 2025/1/3-1/5          ASSA/AEA 2025 @San Francisco

• 2025/1/6-1/9          Stanford University 

• 2025/5/14-5/16     IZA Workshop on Climate and Environmental Economics @Bonn

• 2025/5/29-30          15th Trans Pacific Labor Seminars @Tokyo

• 2025/6/6-6/7           Hong Kong Labor Symposium @HKU

• 2025/6/27-6/29     Sixth World Labor Conference @Toronto

• 2025/7/21-25          NBER Summer Institute @Boston

• 2025/7/29-30          NBER Japan Project Meeting @Tokyo

• 2025/8/2-3                Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics 2025 @Doshisha University, Kyoto

• 2025/8/17                 KER International Conference 2025 @SNU, Seoul

• 2025/8/18-8/22     World Congress of the Econometric Society @Seoul

• 2025/8/23                 Recent Advances in Microeconomics conference@Korea University, Seoul

• 2025/8/27-8/30     Joint Asian and European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics @Singapore

• 2025/8/31-9/28     Visiting  the National University of Singapore

  • 2025/9/11                 National University of Singapore

  • 2025/9/17                 Singapore Management University

Hosting
- Empirical Micro Research Seminar: https://www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/workshops/emf/emf.html
- Calendar for all seminars: https://www.computer-services.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/wp/events/month/ 

• 2026/4/20  (Mon)  Adrienne Sabety (Stanford University)

• 2026/5/11 (Mon)  Xuan Zhang (Singapore Management University)

• 2026/6/8    (Mon)   Jonathan Smith (Georgia State University)

• 2026/6/15 (Mon)   Janjala (Pom) Chirakijja (Monash University)

Field of Interests

      Primary:  Health
      Secondary: Labor, Public, and Behavioral Economics

Working Papers

• Feeling Rich or Looking Rich? Quantifying Self-Image and Social-Image Motives
    (with Nicolas Bottan, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, and Katsunori Yamada)
          [PDF] [NBER WP] (First draft: August 2025)

• “Invisible Killer”: Seasonal Allergies and Accidents
    (with Mika Akesaka)
  [PDF] [NBER WP] [medRxiv] (First draft: August 2023; Updated: July 2024)
  - Media: Nikkei (in Japanese), IZA World of Labor, Toyokeizai (in Japanese)
            Revision requested by American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

• CEO Gender Bias in the Formation of Firm-to-Firm Transactions
  (with Yutaro Izumi, and Masayuki Yagasaki)
  [PDF] [NBER WP] (First draft: August 2023; Updated: May 2025)
  - Media: GraSPP blog

• Education and Later-life Mortality:  Evidence from a School Reform in Japan
  (with Kazuya Masuda) 
  [PDF] [NBER WP] [medRxiv] (First draft: July 2023; Updated: November 2024)

• Policy Diffusion Through Elections
  (with Yasutora Watanabe)
  [PDF] [NBER WP] (First draft: July 2023; Updated: March 2024) 　
  - Media: Nikkei (in Japanese)

• Long-term Consequences of Growing up in a Recession on Risk Preferences
  [PDF] [NBER WP] (First draft: October 2019)  

• School Entry Cutoff Date and the Timing of Births
  [PDF] [NBER WP] (First draft: Feb 2012; Updated: March 2016) 

Selected Work in Progress

• Understanding the Barriers to Paternity Leave-Taking: Evidence from Japan
  (with Marianne Bertrand, Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, and Masayuki Yagasaki)

• Two Inefficiencies of Self-Selection: Evidence from Health Care
  (with Toshiaki Iizuka, and Junya Kawamura)

• Hotter Days, Wider Gap:  The Distributional Impact of Heat on Student Achievement
  (with Mika Akesaka)
          - Media: Toyokeizai (in Japanese), VoxEU

Published/Forthcoming Papers

• AI, Skill, and Productivity: The Case of Taxi Drivers
  (with Kyogo Kanazawa, Daiji Kawaguchi, and Yasutora Watanabe)
  Management Science,  forthcoming.  [Link] [PDF]
  - Media: Nikkei (in Japanese)
  - Press release by University of Tokyo: English, Japanese

• Golfing CEOs
  (with Yutaro Izumi, and Masayuki Yagasaki)
  Labour Economics (special issue), 91: 102639, 2024. [Link] [PDF]

• Later-life Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
  (with David Jacks, Krishna Pendakur, and Anthony Wray) 
  Journal of Public Economics, 238: 105192, 2024.  [Link] [PDF] 
  - Media: TIME Magazine, VoxEU Talks

• Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor: Evidence from Payday Cycle
  (with Mika Akesaka, Peter Eibich, and Chie Hanaoka) 
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 15(4): 68-99, 2023.  [Link] [PDF]
  - Media: MPIDR News

• Asymmetric Demand Response when Prices Increase and Decrease: The Case of Child Healthcare
  (with Toshiaki Iizuka)
  The Review of Economics and Statistics,  105(5): 1325–1333, 2023.  [Link] [PDF] 

• Urban Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
  (with David Jacks, and Krishna Pendakur)
  Explorations in Economic History, 89: 101529, 2023.  [Link] [PDF]
  - Media: Vox News

• Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Healthcare  (previous title: "Free for Children? Patient Cost-sharing and Healthcare Utilization")
  (with Toshiaki Iizuka)
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(4): 381–410, 2022. [Link] [PDF] [NBER WP]
  - Media: Nikkei (in Japanese), Toyokeizai (in Japanese)  
  -  Press release by University of Tokyo: English, Japanese, Japanese (in detail)

• COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
  (with Alexander Karaivanov, Dongwoo Kim, and Shih En Lu)
  Nature Human Behaviour, 2022. [Link] [PDF] [Appendix]  
  - Policy impact:  CDC COVID-19 Science Update
  - Media: The Economist1, The Economist2, Nature news feature, CTV News, National Post, Toronto Star, SFU News, Nikkei etc. 
  - Press release by University of Tokyo: English, Japanese, Japanese (in detail)

• How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-to-peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
  (with Erik Kimbrough, and Andrew McGee)
  Journal of Human Resources, 57: 304-339, 2022.  [Link]  [PDF] [Appendix]
  - Media: Research highlight

• Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
  (with David Jacks, and Krishna Pendakur)
  The Economic Journal, 131(639): 2955–2983, 2021.  [Link] [PDF]
  - Media: Vox News, SFU News

• Face Masks, Public Policies and Slowing the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Canada  
  (with Alexander Karaivanov, Shih En Lu, Cong Chen, and Stephanie Pamplona) 
  Journal of Health Economics, 78: 102475, 2021.   [Link] [PDF] [medRxiv]
  - Policy impact: CDC, CDC notice, WHO, Government of Canada, Vancouver city council, Department of Home and Security
  - Media: National Post, Vancouver Sun, CTVNews, Metro, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Yahoo!, New York Post, New York Daily News, Nature, Vox News, SFUNews etc.

• Income-comparison Attitudes in the United States and the United Kingdom: Evidence from Discrete-choice Experiments
  (with Katsunori Yamada) 
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 164: 414-438, 2019. [Link]  [PDF] [Appendix] [Supplement]  

• Do Risk Preferences Change? Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
  (with Chie Hanaoka, and Yasutora Watanabe) 
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(2): 298-330, 2018.  [Link] [PDF] [Appendix]     
  - Media: Chart of the week, Marginal Revolution, Big Think Edge, Summary (in Japanese)
          - Best Paper Prize, Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance 

• The Effectiveness of Demand-side Government Intervention to Promote Elderly Employment: Evidence from Japan
  (with Ayako Kondo)
  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 70(4), 1008-1026, 2017.   [Link] [PDF]
  - Media:  Summary (in Japanese)

• The Effect of Patient Cost-sharing on Utilization, Health and Risk Protection
  American Economic Review, 104(7): 2152-2184, 2014.  [Link] [PDF] [Appendix]       
  - Media: Nikkei Business (in Japanese)

• Supplier-induced Demand for Newborn Treatment: Evidence from Japan
  (with Kiyohide Fushimi, MD)
  Journal of Health Economics, 35: 162-178, 2014.  [Link] [PDF]  (Shigeoka, first-author) 

• Effects of Universal Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization, and Supply-Side Responses: Evidence from Japan
  (with Ayako Kondo)
  Journal of Public Economics, 99: 1-23, 2013.  [Link] [PDF]  (Lead article) 

Miscellaneous:  Non-economics publication (before starting economics)

• J Otomo, H Shigeoka, H Nagamoto, H Takahashi. 2005.  "Phase transition behavior and proton conduction mechanism in cesium hydrogen sulfate/silica composite." Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 66 (1): 21-30.

•  H Shigeoka, J Otomo, C Wen, M Ogura, H Takahashi. 2004. "Protonic conduction and impedance analysis in CsHSO4/SiO2 composite systems."  Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 151(10), J76.

• SB Kraines, H Komiyama, H Shigeoka, DR Wallace. 2004. "Development of an internet-based collaboration platform and application to household waste plastic processing." International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 3(2): 129-146.

• S Kraines, H Shigeoka, H Komiyama. 2003. "A system tradeoff model for processing options for household plastic waste." Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 4(4): 204-216.

Last updated August, 2025