Hitoshi Shigeoka
Position
- Professor, University of Tokyo
- Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University
- Research Associate, NBER
- Research Fellow, IZA
- Board of Editors, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- Associate Editor, Journal of Health Economics
- Associate Editor, Japanese Economic Review
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Upcoming
2025/1/3-1/5 ASSA/AEA 2025 @San Francisco
2025/1/6-1/9 Stanford University @San Francisco
2025/5/14-5/16 IZA Workshop on Climate and Environmental Economics @Bonn
2025/6/6-6/7 Hong Kong Labor Symposium @HKU
2025/6/27-6/29 Sixth World Labor Conference @Toronto
2025/8/18-8/22 World Congress of the Econometric Society @Seoul
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/
2025/4/11 (Fri) Pol Campos-Mercade (Lund)
2025/5/26 (Mon) Joshua Gottlieb (University of Chicago)
Field of Interests
Primary: Health
Secondary: Labor, Public, and Behavioral Economics
Working Papers
“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 PolicyCEO Gender Bias in the Formation of Firm-to-Firm Transactions
(with Yutaro Izumi, and Masayuki Yagasaki)
[PDF] [NBER WP] (First draft: August 2023)
- Media: GraSPP blogEducation and Later-life Mortality: The Role of Compulsion
(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)
Selected Work in Progress
Understanding the Barriers to Paternity Leave-Taking: Evidence from Japan
(with Marianne Bertrand, Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, and Masayuki Yagasaki)Targeting Healthcare Nudges
(with Toshiaki Iizuka, and Junya Kawamura)Hotter Days, Wider Gap: The Distributional Impact of Heat on Student Achievement
(with Mika Akesaka)Social Image vs. Self Esteem: Evidence From Discrete Choice Experiment
(with Nicolas Bottan, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, and Katsunori Yamada)
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, JapaneseGolfing 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 TalksTemporal 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 NewsAsymmetric 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 NewsIs 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 highlightInfant 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 NewsFace 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 FinanceThe 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 November, 2024