Working Papers

  1. "Stigma, Social Relationship and HIV Testing in the Workplace: Evidence from South Africa" (with Seiro Ito, Yuta Kudo, and Kazunari Tsukada)
  2. "Impacts of an HIV Counselling and Testing Initiative: Results from an Experimental Intervention in South Africa" (with Narumi Hori, Seiro Ito, Yuya Kudo, and Kazunari Tsukada)
  3. "Productivity Improvement in the Specialized Industrial Clusters: The Case of the Japanese Silk-Reeling Industry " (with Kentaro Nakajima and Tetsuji Okazaki) (formerly, "Agglomeration or Selection? The Case of the Japanese Silk Reeling Industry, 1908¡Ý1915")
  4. "The Impact of Farmland Readjustment and Consolidation on Structural Adjustment: The Case of Niigata, Japan"
  5. "An Information Theoretic Approach to Identify Spatial Patterns of Industrial Agglomerations" (with Kaori Ito, Asuka Imaizumi, and Kentaro Nakajima)

Publications

(Publication in English)

  1. "Participatory Rural Development in 1930s Japan: The Economic Rehabilitation Movement"
    Developing Economies, 50(2), pp.170-192. 2012.
  2. "Agrarian land tenancy in prewar Japan: Contract choice and implications on productivity" (with Tetsuji Okazaki and Masaki Nakabayashi)
    Developing Economies, 48(3), pp.293-318. 2010
  3. "Foreign Aid and Recurrent Cost: Donor Competition, Aid Proliferation and Budget Support" (with Hisaki Kono)
    Review of Development Economics, 13(2), pp.276-287. 2009.
  4. "State-Contingent Rent Reduction and Tenancy Contract Choice"
    Journal of Development Economics, 76(2), pp.355-375. 2005.

(Publication in Japanese)

  1. "Farmers' debt in 1930s Japan" (with Takeshi Fujie and Tetsuji Senda)
    The Economic Review, 64(1), pp.13-29. Jan 2013.
  2. "Conflict and consensus building on farmland replotting: the case of northern Shibata" (with Shinsaku Nakajima)
    Journal of Rural Planning Association, 73(5), pp.65-82. June 2011.
  3. "Review of Liquidization and Concentration of Farmland in Japan" (with Shinsaku Nakajima)
    Journal of Rural Economics, 82(1), pp.23-45. June 2010.
  4. "A prefecture-level panel data analysis of tenancy disputes: labor market and restructuring of the agricultural sector in Japan, 1915-1929" (with Yoshihiro Sakane)
    Socio-Economic History, 73(5), pp.65-82. January 2008.
  5. "Perspectives on Autonomous Village Theory: A view from development economics"
    Journal of Agricultural History, No.40, pp.89-96. March 2006.
  6. "Tenancy Rent Reduction and Transaction Costs"
    Journal of Agricultural History, No.39, pp.60-68. March 2005.

(Publication not refereed)

  1. "Saving Group and Credit Markets in Rural Laos" (with Akihiko Ohno)
    Macroeconomic Policy Support for Socio-Economic Development in the Lao PDR: Phase 2 Main Report, Vol. 1, pp. 297-346. Commitee for the Planning and Investment Lao People's Democratic Republic and Japan International Cooperation Agency. March 2005.

  
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