Previous Position:   

Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Saga University, Oct. 2025–Mar. 2026.

Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Saga University, Apr. 2024–Sep. 2025.

Research Fellow, Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Sep. 2023–Mar. 2024.

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Saga University, Mar. 2022–Mar. 2024.

Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Dec. 2021–Mar. 2024.

Specially Appointed Researcher, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Apr. 2021–Mar. 2022.

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Apr. 2021–Mar. 2022.

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Konan University, Apr. 2021–Mar. 2022.

Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr. 2019–Sep. 2021.

Education:   

Ph.D. in Economics, Osaka University, March 2022.

M.A. in Economics,  Osaka University, March 2018.

B.A. in Economics,  Doshisha University, March 2016.

Research Fields:  

• Labor Economics

• Economics of Education

• Applied Econometrics

Scholarship and Grant:   

Principal Investigator

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, “Empirical Analysis of the Effects of New Office Layouts on Worker Productivity, Work Style, and Health,” 2025–2029.

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, “The Effects of School Closures and Daily Living Conditions on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills of Elementary School Students,” 2022–2024.

• JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), “Policy Effects of Child Benefit Programs on Maternal Employment in Japan,” 2019–2021.

• Research Grant, PERSOL RESEARCH AND CONSULTING CO., LTD., 2018–2019.

• Scholarship for Japanese Graduate Students, Asahi Glass Foundation, 2018–2019.

Co-Investigator

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), “Reconstruction of Behavioral Economics through Social Implementation” (PI: Fumio Ohtake), 2025–2029.

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), “Exploring Communication-Promoting Environments in the With-COVID Era: Quantitative Analysis of Voice Data” (PI: Masaru Sasaki), 2023–2025.

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), “Quantitative Analysis of Workplace Communication Using Voice Information” (PI: Masaru Sasaki), 2020–2023.

Address:  

2-1 Saiwaicho, Takamatsu, Kagawa 760-0016, Japan

Email:  

shinsuke. asakawa [at] gmail.com

asakawa.shinsuke [at] kagawa-u.ac.jp

Languages

Japanese(native), English(non-native), LaTeX, R, Stata, 

Last Update (May 24, 2026)