Research
Publications
“Time Horizon of Government and Public Goods Investment: Evidence from Japan”
Journal of Development Economics, vol. 146, 2020
“Barriers to Public Pension Program Participation in a Developing Country”
(with Tomoaki Tanaka, Yasuyuki Sawada, Khaliun Dovchinsuren)
Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, vol. 3, no. 2, 2025
“Railroads and Technology Adoption in Meiji Japan”
Explorations in Economic History, vol. 97, 2025-07
Moriguchi prize awarded paper.
Working Papers
“From Samurai to Skyscraper: Lot Fragmentation and Urban Development”
(with Kentaro Nakajima and Kensuke Teshima) (Latest ver.)
Work in Progress (selected)
“Geography of Business Interactions: Evidence from Business Card Exchange Data”
(with Shinnosuke Kikuchi, Shota Komatsu, Juan Nelson Martínez Dahbura, Kentaro Nakajima, Takanori Nishida, Kensuke Teshima, and Kentaro Nakajima)
“Regime Change and Local Industrialization”
(with Masahiro Kubo, Ken Miura, and Michihiro Nakamura)
“Transforming Samurai into Bureaucrats”
(with Yasuo Takatsuki and Katsuya Takii)
