Hitoshi Shigeoka

Hosting

Speakers:
        - 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/ 

• 2024/4/18 (Thr)     Gabriella Conti (University College London)

• 2024/6/10 (Mon)   Ricardo Perez-Truglia (University of California, Berkeley)

• 2024/6/24 (Mon)   David Chan (Stanford University) 

• 2024/7/1    (Mon)   Fabrizio Mazzonna (Università della Svizzera italiana)

Conferences:

• 2024/6/8 (Sat)   Gender Conference
                                      Keynote speaker: Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago)
                                      [program] [pre-registration form] (first-come, first-served)

• 2024/10/10-11 (Thr, Fri)   Tilburg University & University of Tokyo Labor Conference

Upcoming

• 2024/1/5-7  Econometric Society North American Winter Meetings @San Antonio, Texas

• 2024/1/18  Tohoku University @Sendai, Japan

• 2024/2/2   東京大学 政策評価研究教育センター x 東京商工リサーチ 共催セミナー

• 2024/4/11 University of Queensland (virtual)

• 2024/5/13  Lingnan University @Hong Kong

• 2024/6/16-19: ASHEcon 2024 @San Diego

• 2024/6/29-30:  Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics

• 2024/7/22-26 NBER SI @Boston

• 2024/7/30-31 NBER Japan Project Meeting @Tokyo

• 2024/9/25 Seoul National University @Seoul, Korea

• 2024/9/26 Yonsei University @Seoul, Korea

• 2024/10/19-20  Japan Economic Association Meeting @Fukuoka, Japan

• 2024/12/12-14  AASLE 2024 @Bangkok, Thailand

Field of Interests

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

Working Papers

• [New] “Invisible Killer”: Seasonal Allergies and Accidents
    (with Mika Akesaka)
  [PDF] [NBER WP] [medRxiv] (First draft: August 2023; Updated: December 2023)
  - Media: Nikkei (in Japanese), IZA World of Labor, Toyokeizai (in Japanese)

• [New] CEO 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 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: March 2024)

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

• Later-life Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
  (with David Jacks, Krishna Pendakur, and Anthony Wray) 
  [PDF] [NBER WP] [medRxiv] (First draft: July 2023; Updated: May 2024 ) 
  - Media: TIME Magazine, VoxEU Talks
            R&R at Journal of Public Economics

• AI, Skill, and Productivity: The Case of Taxi Drivers
  (with Kyogo Kanazawa, Daiji Kawaguchi, and Yasutora Watanabe)
  [PDF] [NBER WP] (First draft: October 2022; Updated: May 2023) 　
  - Media: Nikkei (in Japanese)
  - Press release by University of Tokyo: English, Japanese
            R&R at Management Science

• 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

• Marginal Values of Information Nudges in Healthcare
    (with Toshiaki Iizuka)

• Social Image vs. Self Esteem: Evidence From Discrete Choice Experiment
    (with Nicolas Bottan, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, and Katsunori Yamada)

Published/Forthcoming Papers

• 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.  [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.  [PDF] 

• Urban Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
  (with David Jacks, and Krishna Pendakur)
  Explorations in Economic History, 89: 101529, 2023.  [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.  [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.  [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. [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.   [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. [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. [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.  [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. [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. [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.  [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 January, 2024