2024
Date: Wednesday, December 11
Title: The Last or Lasting Samurai? The Impact of Secondary Schools on Elite Formation in Early Development
Presenter: Mari Tanaka (University of Tokyo/Hitotsubashi University)
Date: Tuesday, January 7 (add to Google calendar)
Title: Dual Misbeliefs and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Air Purifiers in Bangladesh
Presenter: Martin Mattsson (National University of Singapore)
2023
Date: November 2 (Thu), 2023
Title:Long-run Effects of Catastrophic Drought Insurance
Presenter: Hyuk Harry Son (Utrecht University School of Economics)
Date: July 20 (Thu), 2023
Title:Somebody else’s problem: Experience Drives (or does not drive) Policy Changes
Presenter: Hikaru Kawarazaki (University College London)
Date: April 12 (Wed), 2023
Title:Contract Enforcement in a Stateless Economy
Presenter: Sultan Mehmood (New Economics School)
Date: March 15 (Wed), 2023
Title:Subsidy for all? Spillover effect of subsidy on crop insurance adoption in Vietnam
Presenter: Vu Ha Thu (Hiroshima University)
Date: March 1 (Wed), 2023
Title: Technology and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Illegal Mining in Colombia
Presenter: Santiago Saavedra (Universidad del Rosario)
2022
Date: November 2 (Wed), 2022
Title:The Making of China and India in 21st Century: Long Run Human Capital
Accumulation from 1900 to 2020
Presenter: Nitin Kumar Bharti (NYU-Abu Dabhi)
Discussant: Pramod Kumar Sur (Asian Growth Research Institute)
Date: July 20 (Wed), 2022
Title: Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short-term Effects of
a Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica
Presenter: Saravana Ravindran (National University of Singapore)
Date: June 15 (Wed), 2022
Title: Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development:
Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees
Presenter: Asad Islam (Monash University)
Discussant: Yuki Higuchi (Sophia University)
Date: May 18 (Wed), 2022
Title: The Gendered Impact of Rural Road Improvement on Schooling Decisions
and Youth Employment in Morocco
Presenter: Yasuharu Shimamura (Kobe University)
Discussant: Takeshi Aida (IDE-JETRO)
Date: Mar 30 (Wed), 2022
Title: Unintended Consequences of Sanitation: Negative Externalities
on Water Quality and Health in India
Presenter: Kazuki Motohashi (Tufts University)
Discussant: Jun Goto (Kobe University)
Date: Jan 19 (Wed), 2022
Title: Does Higher Parental Involvement Lead to Learning Gain?
Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
Presenter: Daniel Suryadarma (ADBI)
Discussant: Nobuyuki Nakamura (University of Tokyo)
2021
Date: Nov 17 (Wed), 2021
Title: Basis risk and low demand for weather index insurance
Presenter: Ken Miura (Kyoto University)
Discussant: Munenobu Ikegami (Hosei University)
Date: July 14 (Wed), 2021
Title: Labor Market Information and Parental Attitudes toward Female Labor Force
Participation: Experimental Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Presenter: Momoe Makino (Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO)
Discussant: Dainn Wie (GRIPS)
Date: May 19 (Wed), 2021
Title: Generalized poverty-gap ordering
Presenter: Kohei Kamaga (Sophia University)
Discussant: Tomoki Fujii (Singapore Management University)
Date: May 12 (Wed), 2021
Title: Endogeneity bias and other problems in the estimation of production functions
Presenter: Jesus Felipe (Asian Development Bank)
Discussant: Masayuki Sawada (Hitotsubashi University)
Date: Jan 6 (Wed), 2021
Title: Education and the Evolution of Comparative Advantage
Presenter: Aashish Mahta (UC Santa Barbara)
Discussant: Yasuyuki Todo (Waseda University)
2019-2020
Date: December 2, 2020
Title: Harvesting the rain: The adoption of environmental technologies in the Sahel
Presenter: Kelsey Jack (UC Santa Barbara)
Discussant: Yuko Nakano (University of Tsukuba)
Date: November 11, 2020
Title: The Effect of Computer Assisted Learning on Children's Cognitive
and Noncognitive Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Cambodia
Presenter: Makiko Nakamuro (Keio University)
Discussant: Masaru Nagashima (Waseda University)
Date: July 15, 2020
Title: Information Campaign on Water Quality and Marriage Market:
The Case of Arsenic Exposure in Rural Bangladesh
Presenter: Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney)
Discussant: Chikako Yamauchi (GRIPS)
Date: June 17, 2020
Title: Human Capital Accumulation and Disasters: Evidence from the Pakistan
Earthquake of 2005
Presenter: Jishnu Das (Georgetown University)
Discussant: Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University)
Date: June 3, 2020
Title: The Health Costs of Dirty Energy: Evidence from the Capacity Market in Colombia
Presenter: Teresa Molina (University of Hawaii)
Discussant: Masaru Nagashima (Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies)
Date: May 20, 2020
Title: At the Right Time: Disbursement and Repayment Schedules of Microcredit
Loans for Sharecropping Farmers
Presenter: Hisaki Kono (Kyoto University)
Discussant: Jun Goto (Kobe University)
Date: May 13, 2020
Title: How do community contribution requirements affect local public good
provision? Experimental evidence from safe water sources in Bangladesh
Presenter: Anna Tompsett (Stockholm University)
Discussant: Takeshi Aida (IDE-JETRO)
Date: December 19, 2019
Title: Perceived Barriers, Actual Barriers and Growth Intentions: Evidence
from Small and Medium Enterprises
Presenter: Nhung Vu Thi Hong (Vietnamese-German University)
Discussant: Yukichi Mano (Hitotsubashi University)
Date: November 27, 2019
Title: The Impact of Road Development on Household Welfare in Rural Papua
New Guinea
Presenter: Christopher Edmonds (Tokyo International University)
Discussant: Manabu Fujimura (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Date: November 13, 2019
Title: Early-Life Circumstance and Adult Locus of Control:Evidence from 72
Countries
Presenter: Masahiro Shoji (Seijo University)
Discussant: Izumi Yamasaki (Gakushuin University)
Date: October 16 2019
Title: Epidemics and the Emergence of Labor Saving Technologies
Presenter: Raphael Franck (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Discussant: Junichi Yamasaki (Kobe University)
Date: July 3, 2019
Title: Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices- Experimental
Evidence from Bangladesh
Presenter: Mohammad Abdul Malek (University of Tsukuba)
Discussant: Kazushi Takahashi (GRIPS)
Date: June 12, 2019
Title: Cooperation under Elite Control: Community Policing in Tanzania
Presenter: Yuya Kudo (IDE-JETRO)
Discussant: Hideaki Goto (IUJ)
Date: May 15, 2019
Title: Vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence
from Cambodia
Presenter: Yoshito Takasaki (University of Tokyo)
Discussant: Yuki Higuchi (Nagoya City University)
Date: April 17, 2019
Title: Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Evidence from Centralizing and
Decentralizing School Admissions
Presenter: Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi University)
Discussant: Tomohiro Machikita (IDE/JETRO)