Kenichi Kuroiwa

I am a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Morrison School of Agribusiness, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. 

I completed my Ph.D. from the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia (UGA) in 2025. 　

My research fields are agricultural economics, climate change, and risk management. 

In particular, I am interested in

• • Impact of climate change on agriculture

  • Technology adoption 

  • Labor market

Contact: kkuroiwa@asu.edu

Publications

• A. Ford Ramsey and Kenichi Kuroiwa (2025) "Revisiting the relationship between farmland prices and rents in Japan with time-varying vector autoregressions", Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

• Ashok K. Mishra, Rowell C. Dikitanan, Kenichi Kuroiwa, Tran Thi My Hanh, Krishna D. Joshi, Ithipong Assaranurak, Hasil Sembiring, Robert Caudwell, Bjoem. O. Sander, Robert Andrade, and Valerien O. Pede ”Evaluating Returns on Investment in Rice Breeding: Evidence from Selected South and Southeast Asian Countries”, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (Accepted)

• Kenichi Kuroiwa, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil, and Ishika Gupta, ”Labor Scarcity and Technology Adoption in Agriculture: Evidence from Rural India during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Economic Development and Cultural Change (Accepted)

Working papers

• Effects of Extreme Weather Event on H-2A Agricultural Guest Worker Employment (Kenichi Kuroiwa and Ashok Mishra), (Under Review)

• Responding to Temperature Shocks through Crop Variety: Evidence from Heat-Avoiding and Heat-Tolerant Rice in Japan (Kenichi Kuroiwa, Kentaro Kawasaki and A. Ford Ramsey) (Under review)

▸Presentations: Harvard Climate Economics Pipeline workshop (Paper, July 2023), AAEA 2023 (Poster, Aug 2023)

▸Award: AAEA 2023 Land, Water and Environmental Economics Section Outstanding Poster Award (Aug 2023)