Takashi Kurosaki's English Publications

 Last revision: April 11, 2024
This is a list of my publication in English. New additions on April 11, 2024 are denoted with . If you need a copy of my papers or further information about my publication, please contact me from my index page..

Working Papers

Takashi Kurosaki, Saumik Paul, and Firman Witoelar, "In Pursuit of Power: Land Tenancy Contracts and Local Political Business Cycles in Indonesia", Mimeo, Feb 2024.(A thoroughly revised version of Kurosaki, Paul, and Witoelar, "Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts", IZA Discussion Paper No. 14263, April 2021, (Link to the IZA paper) .

Yuichi Kubota, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Takashi Kurosaki, Kazuhiro Obayashi, and Hirotaka Ohmura, "Wartime Service Provision and Post-conflict State Legitimacy: Perception-based Foundation of Sustainable Development in Northwestern Pakistan", Mimeo, Feb 2024.

Hamza Umer and Takashi Kurosaki, "Effects of the Covid-19 & Natural Agricultural Shocks on Preferences of Farmers", Mimeo, January 2024, revised version of the paper presented at the SEEDEC 2023 conference at GRIPS, September 31, 2023.

Yuko Mori, R. Manjula, D Rajasekhar, Jun Goto, and Takashi Kurosaki, "Who becomes a politician in a gender quota system? Evidence from India", Mimeo, Dec 2023.

Abu S. Shonchoy, Uzma Afzal, Agha Ali Akram, Akib Khan, and Takashi Kurosaki, "Optimizing community-health-worker resources to scale child nutrition programs in rural Pakistan". Mimeo, November 2024. Paper presented at "Pathways to Development Conference", Lahore University of Management Science, December 18, 2024.

Krzysztof Krakowski, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Yuichi Kubota, Takashi Kurosaki, Kazuhiro Obayashi, and Hirotaka Ohmura, "Ethnoreligious Diversity and State-Building: Noncooperation and Conflict in Pakistan's Tribal Areas", Mimeo. November 2023.

Deepak Johnson and Takashi Kurosaki, "Slow Down in Progress: An Analysis of Agricultural Household Incomes in India", Mimeo, May 2023, presented at the JASAS 2023 conference at Kobe University, September 24, 2023.

Hamza Umer, Takashi Kurosaki, and Kazuhiro Obayashi, "Does religiosity influence risk taking? It depends on how you measure religiosity", Mimeo, May 2023.

Deepak Johnson and Takashi Kurosaki, "Price Support and Farm Incomes: Comparative Study of Rice Growing Regions in Southern India and Mekong-Delta Vietnam", May 2023, IER-DP A.741.

Guenwoo Lee, Aya Suzuki, Ayu Pratiwi, Farikhah, and Takashi Kurosaki, "Exploring the Potential of Online Communities of Practices as Complementary Agricultural Information Platforms: A Case Study of Indonesian Shrimp Farmers during the COVID-19 Pandemic", Mimeo, July 2023.

Ian Coxhead, Takashi Kurosaki, and Sisira Jayasuriya, "Is female labor immobility holding back industrialization in Pakistan?", IDE Working Paper, IDE DP No. 896, April 2023, https://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Reports/Dp/896.html.

Hamza Umer and Takashi Kurosaki, "'Update Bias': Manipulating Past Information Based on the Existing Circumstances", Mimeo, May 2023.

Hamza Umer, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Hirotaka Ohmura, Takashi Kurosaki, Yuichi Kubota, and Kazuhiro Obayashi, "Can Information Improve State Legitimacy? A Field Experiment from Pakistan", Mimeo, October 2022.

Hamza Umer and Takashi Kurosaki, "Recipient dependent generosity and its relation with religiosity: Field experiment with Muslim farmers in Pakistan", Mimeo, Jan 2023.

Jun Goto, Takashi Kurosaki, and Yuko Mori, "Polarized Social Norms Against Corruption: A Social Media Experiment in India", mimeo, March 2021, paper presented at the JADE Conference, April 2021.

Yuko Mori and Takashi Kurosaki, "Political Effects of Information: Empirical Evidence from India", mimeo, August 2021.

Takashi Kurosaki, Saumik Paul, and Firman Witoelar, "Access to Land and Tenancy Practices on Tanah Bengkok: Evidence from Java, Indonesia", IZA DP 13597, August 2020. IZA Institute of Labor Economcis. (Link to full paper).

Hidayat Ullah Khan, Yuichi Kubota, Takashi Kurosaki, Kazuhiro Obayashi, and Hirotaka Ohmura, "Wartime Service Provision and State Legitimacy: Evidence from the former FATA Region, Pakistan", paper online-presented at JEA Spring Meeting, May 2020.

Takao Maruyama and Takashi Kurosaki, "Does remedial activity with math workbook improve learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up intervention in Niger", May 2020.HIAS-E-99, (Link to full paper).

Kurosaki, Takashi, Asit Banerji, Kaushalesh Lal, Shampa Paul, and Shunsuke Tsuda, "Who Were Most Impacted by the 2016 Demonetisation among Micro and Small Enterprises?", March 2019, Discussion Paper, Society for Development Studies, India Habitat Centre, Delhi.

Banerji, Asit, Jun Goto, Hironori Ishizaki, Takashi Kurosaki, Kaushalesh Lal, Shampa Paul, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Shunsuke Tsuda, "Entrepreneurship in Micro and Small Enterprises: Empirical Findings from Resurveys in Northeastern Areas of Delhi, India", HIAS Discussion Paper, HIAS-E-65, March 2018. (Link to full paper).

Kurosaki, Takashi, Rasyad A. Parinduri and Saumik Paul, "Evaluating Efficiency Gains from Tenancy Reform Targeting a Heterogeneous Group of Sharecroppers: Evidence from India", November 2016, CEI Working Paper, 2016-10. (Link to full paper).

Takashi Kurosaki and Hidayat Ullah Khan, "Community-Based Development and Aggregate Shocks in Developing Countries: The Experience of an NGO in Pakistan", March 2014. PRIMCED DP No.54.(Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 484MB).

Akifumi Ado and Takashi Kurosaki, "Motives for Sharing in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Jakarta", PRIMCED DP No. 53, March 2014. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 810KB).

Abu Shonchoy and Takashi Kurosaki, "Impact of Seasonality-adjusted Flexible Microcredit on Repayment and Food Consumption: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh", IDE Discussion Paper No. 460, March 2014.(Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 519KB).

Takashi Kurosaki, Asit Banerji, S. N. Mishra, and A. K. Mangal, "Unorganized Enterprises and Rural-Urban Migration in India: The Case of the Cycle Rickshaw Sector in Delhi" , July 2012, PRIMCED discussion paper no. 28.(Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 452KB).

Takashi Kurosaki, "Urban Transportation Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Delhi Metro's Impact on the Cycle Rickshaw Rental Market", March 2012, PRIMCED discussion paper no. 24. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 229KB).

Takashi Kurosaki, "Wages in Kind and Economic Development: Historical and Contemporary Evidence from Asia", PRIMCED discussion paper No.11, March 2011 (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 391KB).

Takashi Kurosaki, "Labor Contracts, Incentives, and Food Security in Rural Myanmar", January 2005 (revised from the August 2005 and July 2005 versions). COE Discussion Paper no.134, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 1384KB).

Kurosaki, Takashi, Ikuko Okamoto, Kyosuke Kurita, and Koichi Fujita, "Rich Periphery, Poor Center: Myanmar's Rural Economy under Partial Transition to a Market Economy." COE Discussion Paper no.23, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, March 2004. A revised version of the paper presented at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, Yale University, October 17-19, 2003. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 521KB).

Books Published

Tak's Maruzen Takashi Kurosaki, Comparative Economic Development in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: Agriculture in the 20th Century, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishers, 2017, ISBN 978-4-621-30136-4 C3333, xiv+235p.
Corrigenda for the book (April 11, 2024)

Tak's OPS Takashi Kurosaki, Risk and Household Behavior in Pakistan's Agriculture, Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies. I.D.E. Occasional Papers Series No. 34., 1998, ISBN 4-258-52034-9 C3033, x+165p, Overseas distributor=Maruzen Co. (Abstract).

Journal Articles, Published or Accepted for Publication

Yuko Mori, D Rajasekhar, R Manjula, Takashi Kurosaki, and Jun Goto, "Do Women Council Members Allocate More Public Goods? Evidence from Rural India", forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change (Accepted August 22, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/727799; https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727799

Takao Maruyama and Takashi Kurosaki, "Developing Textbooks to Improve Math Learning in Primary Education: Empirical Evidence from El Salvador", Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 72, Issue 2, January 2024, pp.423-1040. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/721768.

Abu S. Shonchoy, Agha A. Akram, Mahrukh Khan, Hina Khalid, Sidra Mazhar, Akib Khan, and Takashi Kurosaki. "A Community Health Worker-Based Intervention on Anthropometric Outcomes of Children Aged 3 to 21 Months in Urban Pakistan, 2019-2021", American Journal of Public Health, January 2023, 113(1): 105-114. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307111

Hamza Umer, Takashi Kurosaki, and Ichiro Iwasaki, "Unearned Endowment and Charity Recipient Lead to Higher Donations: A Meta-Analysis of the Dictator Game Lab Experiments", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2022.101827, published online on January 14, 2022.

Jun Goto, Takashi Kurosaki, and Yuko Mori, "Distance to News: How Social Media Information Affects Bribe-giving in India", Japanese Economic Review, Volume 73, Issue 1, January 2022: 179-209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42973-021-00084-w.(2022 JER Best Article was awarded to this paper)

Takao Maruyama and Takashi Kurosaki, "Do remedial activities using math workbooks improve student learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up interventions in Niger", World Development, Volume 148, December 2021, 105659. Published online on Sept 2, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105659. Open access.

Khan, Muhammad Fawad, Takashi Kurosaki, and Takeshi Sakurai, "Contract Farming, Loan Repayment Ability and Access to Credit of Small Farmers in Pakistan", Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 22, March 2020: 123-128.

Khan, Muhammad Fawad, Yuko Nakano, and Takashi Kurosaki, "Impact of Contract Farming on Land Productivity and Income of Maize and Potato Growers in Pakistan", Food Policy, Volume 85, May 2019: 28-39.

Matsuda, Ayako and Takashi Kurosaki, "Demand for Temperature and Rainfall Index Insurance in India", Agricultural Economics, Volume 50, Issue3. May 2019: 353-366.

Kurosaki, Takashi, "Informality, Micro and Small Enterprises, and the 2016 Demonetisation Policy in India", Asian Economic Policy Review, vol.14, issue 1, January 2019, pp.97-118.

Iniguez-Montiel, Alberto J. and Takashi Kurosaki, "Growth, Inequality and Poverty Dynamics in Mexico", Latin American Economic Review, vol.27, issue 12, December 2018: 1-25.

Kurosaki, Takashi, "Household-Level Recovery after Floods in a Tribal and Conflict-Ridden Society", World Development, volume 94, June 2017, pp.51-63.

Takahashi, Kazushi, Abu Shonchoy, Seiro Ito, and Takashi Kurosaki, "How Does Contract Design Affect the Uptake of Microcredit among the Ultra-poor? Experimental Evidence from River Islands of Northern Bangladesh", Journal of Development Studies, Vol.53, Issue 4, April 2017, Pages 530-547.

Kurosaki, Takashi and Hidayat Ullah Khan, "Impact of Human Resource Development Training on Crop Damages by Wild Animals in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Rural Pakistan", Journal of Development Effectiveness, 8(3) September 2016: 388-403.

Kurosaki, Takashi and Yoshifumi Usami, "A Note on the Reliability of Agricultural Wage Data in India: Reconciliation of Monthly AWI Data for District-Level Analysis", Review of Agrarian Studies, 6(1) January-June 2016: 6-38.

Khan, Hidayat Ullah and Takashi Kurosaki, "Targeting Performance of Community-based Development Interventions: An Econometric Analysis of a Women-Focused and Women-Managed Non-Governmental Organization in Rural Pakistan", Pakistan Development Review, Papers and Proceedings, 54(4) Part II, Winter 2015: 825-840.

Mori, Yuko and Takashi Kurosaki, "Does Political Reservation Affect Voting Behavior? Empirical Evidence from India", Economic and Political Weekly, May 14, 2016, vol.51, no.20, pp.37-46.

Kurosaki, Takashi and Kazuya Wada, "Spatial Characteristics of Long-term Changes in Indian Agricultural Production: District-Level Analysis, 1965-2007", Review of Agrarian Studies, 5(1) January-June 2015: 1-38.(Abstract).

Kurosaki, Takashi. "Vulnerability of Household Consumption to Floods and Droughts in Developing Countries: Evidence from Pakistan", Environment and Development Economics, vol.20, issue 2, April 2015: 209-235.(Abstract).

Kurosaki, Takashi. "Long-term Agricultural Growth in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh from 1901/2 to 2001/2", International Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 7, 2015: 61-86.

Kurosaki, Takashi. "Dynamics of Household Assets and Income Shocks in the Long-run Process of Economic Development: The Case of Rural Pakistan" Asian Development Review, 30(2), September 2013: 76-109.(Abstract).

Nobuhiko Fuwa, Seiro Ito, Kensuke Kubo, Takashi Kurosaki, and Yasuyuki Sawada "How Does Credit Access Affect Children's Time Allocation? Evidence from Rural India" Journal of Globalization and Development, 3(1), Published Online 2012-06-28.(Abstract).

Takashi Kurosaki and Hidayat Ullah Khan "Vulnerability of Microfinance to Strategic Default and Covariate Shocks: Evidence from Pakistan", Developing Economies, 50(2) June 2012: 81-115.(Abstract).

Takashi Kurosaki and Humayun Khan "Floods, Relief Aid, and Household Resilience in Rural Pakistan: Findings from a Pilot Survey in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa", The Review of Agrarian Studies, 1(2) July-December 2011: 79-107.(Abstract).

Kyosuke Kurita and Takashi Kurosaki, "The Dynamics of Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: A Panel Analysis of Regional Data from the Philippines and Thailand", Asian Economic Journal 25(1) March 2011: 3-33. (Abstract). (Working paper version in PDF, 265KB).

Takashi Kurosaki "Targeting the Vulnerable and the Choice of Vulnerability Measures: Review and Application to Pakistan", Pakistan Development Review 49(2) Summer 2010: 87-103. (Abstract). (Working paper version in PDF, 230KB).

Takahiro Ito and Takashi Kurosaki, "Weather Risk, Wages in Kind, and the Off-Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in a Developing Country," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(3) August 2009: 697-710.(Abstract). (Working paper version in PDF, 391KB; Appendix in PDF, 564KB).

Kurosaki, T. "Crop Choice, Farm Income, and Political Control in Myanmar", Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 13(2) May 2008: 180-203.(Abstract).

Kurosaki, T. "Comment on 'Economic Reforms and Human Development Indicators in India'", Asian Economic Policy Review, Volume 3 Issue 2 (December 2008): 313-314. (Link to the journal's special issue on "New India").

Kurosaki, T. "Community and Economic Development in Pakistan: The Case of Citizen Community Boards in Hafizabad and Japanese Perspectives", Pakistan Development Review, Vol.45, No.4 Part II, Winter 2006: 575-585. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 89KB. As you can see from this manuscript, this paper was completed on January 2007, although its publication date is somewhat backdated.)

Kurosaki, T. "The Measurement of Transient Poverty: Theory and Application to Pakistan", Journal of Economic Inequality. Volume 4, Issue 3 (December 2006): 325-345. (Abstract).

Fuwa, Nobuhiko, Seiro Ito, Kensuke Kubo, Takashi Kurosaki, and Yasuyuki Sawada. "Introduction to A Study of Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Gender Discrimination in Rural Andhra Pradesh, India." Developing Economies 44(4) December 2006: 375-97.

Fuwa, Nobuhiko, Seiro Ito, Kensuke Kubo, Takashi Kurosaki, and Yasuyuki Sawada. "Gender Discrimination, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Importance of Spouses' Fathers: Evidence on Household Expenditure from Rural India." Developing Economies 44(4) December 2006: 398-439. (Abstract).

Takashi Kurosaki, Seiro Ito, Nobuhiko Fuwa, Kensuke Kubo, and Yasuyuki Sawada. "Child Labor and School Enrollment in Rural India: Whose Education Matters?" Developing Economies 44(4) December 2006: 440-464. (Abstract).

Yasuyuki Sawada, Kensuke Kubo, Nobuhiko Fuwa, Seiro Ito, and Takashi Kurosaki. "On the Mother and Child Labor Nexus under Credit Constraints: Findings from Rural India." Developing Economies 44(4) December 2006: 465-499. (Abstract).

Kurosaki, T. "Determinants of Collective Action under Devolution Initiatives: The Case of Citizen Community Boards in Pakistan", Pakistan Development Review, Vol.44, No.3 Autumn 2005: 253-270. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 670KB. As you can see from this manuscript, this paper was completed on March 2006, although its publication date is somewhat backdated.)

Kurosaki, T. "Long-term Agricultural Growth and Crop Shifts in India and Pakistan", Journal of International Economic Studies (the Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University), No.20, March 2006: 19-35. (Abstract).

Kurosaki, T., and Humayun Khan "Human Capital, Productivity, and Stratefication in Rural Pakistan", Review of Development Economics, 10(1) February 2006: 116-134. (Abstract).

Kurosaki, T. "Consumption Vulnerability to Risk in Rural Pakistan", Journal of Development Studies, 42(1) January 2006: 70-89. (Abstract).

Kurosaki, T. "Specialization and Diversification in Agricultural Transformation: The Case of West Punjab, 1903-1992", American Journal of Agricultural Economics , May 2003, Vol.85, No.2: 373-387.(Abstract).

Kurosaki, T. "Agriculture in India and Pakistan, 1900-95: A Further Note", Economic and Political Weekly. July 27, 2002 (Vol.37, no.30): 3149-3152. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 143KB).

Kurosaki, T. and Marcel Fafchamps, "Insurance Market Efficiency and Crop Choices in Pakistan", Journal of Development Economics, 67(2), April 2002: 419-453. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 327KB).

Kurosaki, T. "Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Risk and Time Preferences: Theory and Evidence from Village India", Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 42(2) December 2001: 103-117. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 140KB). Its longer DP version is "Risk Sharing Arrangements and the Structure of Risk and Time Preferences: Theory and Evidence from Village India", IER Discussion Paper Series A No.383, November 1999, full paper in PDF, 272KB)

Kurosaki, T. "Agriculture in India and Pakistan, 1900-95: Productivity and Crop Mix." Economic and Political Weekly (India), 34(52) December 25, 1999: A160-A168. (Abstract).

Kurosaki, T. "Production Risk and Advantages of Mixed Farming in the Pakistan Punjab." Developing Economies. 35(1), March 1997: 28-47. (Abstract).

Kurosaki, T. "Milk, Fodder, and the Green Revolution: The Case of Mixed Farming in the Pakistan Punjab." Pakistan Development Review. 35(4) Part II, Winter 1996: 537-548. (Abstract).

Kurosaki, T. "Government Interventions, Market Integration, and Price Risk in Pakistan's Punjab." Pakistan Development Review. 35(2), Summer 1996: 129-144. (Abstract).

Kurosaki, T. "Risk and Insurance in a Household Economy: Role of Livestock in Mixed Farming in Pakistan." Developing Economies. 33(4), December 1995: 464-485. (Abstract).

Other articles (including book chapters) and reports

Takashi Kurosaki, "Economic Inequality in South Asia", in Routledge Handbook of South Asian Economics, Second Edition, edited by Raghbendra Jha, forthcoming.

Takashi Kurosaki, "Crop Specialization and Long-Term Productivity Growth in Indian Agriculture: A District-Level Analysis", in Transformation of Indian Economy in the Rural-Urban Nexus, Routledge, edited by Tsukasa Mizushima, forthcoming.

Takashi Kurosaki, "Agriculture", in The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia I: Colonial India (1750-1947), edited by Latika Chaudhary, Tirthankar Roy, and Anand Swamy. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Takashi Kurosaki, Yuichi Kubota, and Kazuhiro Obayashi, "Wartime Violence, Risk/Time Preferences, and Post-conflict Sociopolitical Participation: Evidence from Northwestern Pakistan", in Y Kubota (ed.), Micro-Evidence for Peacebuilding Theories and Policies, Springer, December 2022.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4899-2_4. pp.61-88.

Kurosaki, Takashi, "Crop Specialization and Long-Term Productivity Growth in Indian Agriculture: A District-Level Analysis", in Tsukasa Mizushima (ed.), Transformation of Indian Economy in the Rural-Urban Nexus, Routledge, forthcoming.

Kurosaki, Takashi, "The Agriculture-Macroeconomy Growth Link in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: 1900-2000", in Vicente Pinilla and Henry Wilelbald, (eds.), Agricultural Development in the World Periphery: A Global Economic History Approach, Palgrave Studies in Economic History, 2018, pp.207-234. (The book won the Jaume Vicens Vives Prize to the best book of Spanish and Latin America Economic History, Spanish Economic History Association, 2019).

Kurosaki, Takashi and Sajidin Husain, "Project for Assistance to the Recovery and Development of the Agricultural Economy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, OSRO/PAK/502/JPN", Project Evaluation Series, FAO. Document dated October 2017. Made public on FAO internet on Nov 15, 2018 at http://www.fao.org/evaluation/evaluation-digest/evaluations-detail/en/c/1170290/.

Research Group on Strategic Support for Industrial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, "Training-Infrastructure-Finance (TIF) Strategy for Industrial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa", JICA Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, November 2017. Members of the research group: Keijiro Otsuka, Fumiharu Mieno, Tetsushi Sonobe, Takashi Kurosaki, Go Shimada, Naohiro Kitano, Ken Odajima, and Suguru Miyazaki. https://www.jica.go.jp/jica-ri/publication/other/20171122_01.html.

Kurosaki, Takashi, "Towards Eradication of Child Labour: A Perspective from Fieldwork-based Research in India", in Summary Report on the Roundtable Meeting: Strategies to End Child Labour by 2025 (SDG Target 8.7), ACE (Action against Child Labour) and Child Labor Coalition, 2016, p.11.

Kurosaki, Takashi "Experimental Design for Flexible Microcredit Trials", in Abu Shonchoy ed., Seasonality and Microcredit: The Case of Northern Bangladesh, Springer Briefs in Economics, Tokyo: Springer Japan, pp.55-70.

Kurosaki, Takashi "Impact of Flexible Microcredit on Food Consumption", in Abu Shonchoy ed., Seasonality and Microcredit: The Case of Northern Bangladesh, Springer Briefs in Economics, Tokyo: Springer Japan, pp.91-104.

Takashi Kurosaki, "Studies in Japan on the Rural Economy of Pakistan," Social Science and Policy Bulletin (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Volume 4, no.1, Summer 2012: 17-23.(Its manuscript version in PDF, 406KB).

Takashi Kurosaki, "Economic Inequality in South Asia", Routledge Handbook of South Asian Economics, edited by Raghbendra Jha, 2011 (ISBN 978-0-415-55397-1), pp.61-75. (Its manuscript version in PDF, 208KB).

Yuko Mori and Takashi Kurosaki, "Does Political Reservation Affect Voter Turnout?" Hindu, May 06, 2011.(Its manuscript version in PDF, 30KB).

Kurosaki, T. "Land-Use Changes and Agricultural Growth in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, 1901-2004" in Bhaskar Dutta, Tridip Ray, and E. Somanathan (eds.) New and Enduring Themes in Development Economics, Chennai/Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp.303-330, 2009 (ISBN: 978-981-283-941-1). (Revised version of the paper presented at the International Conference on Comparative Development, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, 18-20 December, 2007). (Abstract). (Working paper version in PDF, 203KB).

Kurosaki, T. "Poverty Reduction, Rural Markets, and Human Capital" Proceedings, JIRCAS International Syposium 2009: Roles of Social Sciences in International Agricultural Research and Development, November 4-5, 2009. Tsukuba JIRCAS:24-29.

Kurosaki, T. "Land-use Changes and Agricultural Growth in India and Pakistan, 1901-2004" in Andrew Millington and Wendy Jepson (eds.), Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes, New York: Springer (ISBN: 978-0-387-78863-0). 2008, pp.53-72.(Abstract). (Link to the publisher).

Kurosaki, T. "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Gender Discrimination in Andhra Pradesh, India" in A Comparative Study of the Research Conditions of Women Scientists, Gender Isasues in S&T, and the Present Conditions of Women's/Gender Studies in Asian Countries towards Human Centered Sustainable Development, compiled by Hiroko Hara. Science Council of Asia (SCA). SCA Report March 2008. pp.103-108.

Kurosaki, T. "Poverty in Pakistan and Community Development" Presentation at JICA (DSP) Seminar Series I "Community Development and Local Government," Lahore, Pakistan. September 17, 2004. (Abstract in PDF, 30KB).

Kurosaki, T. "Wage Statistics and Rural Labor Markets in Developing Countries", Hi-Stat Newsletter, No.1, 2004.4: 3-5.

Kurosaki, T. "Poverty, Human Capital and Household-Level Diversification in the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan", In S.S. Acharya, Surjit Singh, and Vidya Sagar (eds.), Sustainable Agriculture, Poverty and Food Security, Jaipur, India: Rawat Publications, 2002, pp.607-639.

Kurosaki, T. "Pakistan: Border Changes and National Income Statistics." Newsletter of the Asian Historical Statistics Project. No.6, July 1997: 8-10. (full paper).

Old Working Papers (Background Papers for Journal Articles)

Kurosaki, T., Kaushalesh Lal, A.K. Mangal, Asit Banerji, and S.N. Mishra, "Entrepreneurship in Micro and Small Enterprises: Empirical Findings from a Baseline Study in Northeastern Areas of Delhi, India", CEI Working Paper Series No. 2015-07, October 2015. (Full paper in PDF, 629KB).

Kurosaki, T. "Long-Term Education Statistics of Pakistan" (Japanese text with bilingual tables/figures), CEI WP, no.2015-06, August 2015. (Full paper in PDF, 1.2MB).

Kurosaki, T. "Household-Level Recovery after Floods in a Tribal and Conflict-Ridden Society", CEI WP, no.2015-05, July 2015. (Full paper in PDF, 288KB). See the 2017 World Development article.

Hidayat Ullah Khan and Takashi Kurosaki "Targeting Performance of Community-based Development Interventions: An Econometric Analysis of a Women-Focused and Women-Managed Non-Governmental Organization in Rural Pakistan", February 2015. PRIMCED DP No. 64.(Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 291KB). See the 2015 Pakistan Development Review article

Alberto J. Iniguez-Montiel and Takashi Kurosaki "Limits to Economic Growth and the Effect of Redistribution in Mexico". February 2015, PRIMCED DP No. 63.(Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 0.98MB). See the 2018 Latin American Economic Review article.

Takashi Kurosaki and Kazuya Wada, "Spatial Characteristics of Long-term Changes in Indian Agricultural Production: District-Level Analysis, 1965-2007", Jan 2015. CEI Discussion Paper, No.2014-10 / PRIMCED DP No.60. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 2.01MB). See the 2015 Review of Agrarian Studies paper.

Kazushi Takahashi, Abu Shonchoy, Seiro Ito, and Takashi Kurosaki, "How Does Contract Design Affect the Uptake of Microcredit among the Ultra-poor? Experimental Evidence from River Islands of Northern Bangladesh", IDE Discussion Paper No.483, November 2014.(Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 995KB). See the 2016 Journal of Development Studies article.

Takashi Kurosaki and Hidayat Ullah Khan, "Impact of Human Resource Development Training on Crop Damages by Wild Animals in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Rural Pakistan". August 2014, PRIMCED DP No.59. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 312MB). See the 2016 Journal of Development Effectiveness article.

Takashi Kurosaki, "Long-term Agricultural Growth in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh from 1901/02 to 2001/02", November 2013, PRIMCED DP No.46. (A short version of this paper has been published in International Journal of South Asian Studies.) (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 408KB).

Takashi Kurosaki "Dynamics of Household Assets and Income Shocks in the Long-run Process of Economic Development: The Case of Rural Pakistan", April 2013, PRIMCED DP, no.39. (A short version of this paper has been published in Asian Development Review.) (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 1.28MB).

Takashi Kurosaki "Vulnerability of Household Consumption to Floods and Droughts in Developing Countries: Evidence from Pakistan", March 2013, CEI WP, no.2012-10. (This is a revised paper of PRIMCED DP no.8, February 2011, "Vulnerability of Household Consumption to Village-level Aggregate Shocks in a Developing Country".) (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 629KB). See the 2015 Environment and Development Economics article.

Ayako Matsuda, Takashi Kurosaki and Yasuyuki Sawada "Rainfall and Temperature Index Insurance in India: Project Documentation", February 2013, PRIMCED DP, no.34 (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 327KB).

Yuko Mori and Takashi Kurosaki "Does Political Reservation Affect Voting Behavior? Empirical Evidence from India", January 2013, CEI WP, no.2012-9 (This is a revised paper with the same title listed as G-COE discussion paper, No.205/ PRIMCED discussion paper, No.17, September 2011). (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 518KB). See the 2016 Economic & Political Weekly article.

Takashi Kurosaki "Household-level Recovery after Floods in a Developing Country: Evidence from Pakistan", CEI WP, no.2012-8, November 2012. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 516KB).

Takashi Kurosaki, Humayun Khan, Mir Kalan Shah, and Muhammad Tahir "Household-level Recovery after Floods in a Developing Country: Further Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan" April 2012, PRIMCED discussion paper no. 27.(Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 196KB).

Hidayat Ullah Khan, Takashi Kurosaki, and Ken Miura "The Effectiveness of Community-Based Development in Poverty Reduction: A Descriptive Analysis of a Women-Managed NGO in Rural Pakistan", September 2011, PRIMCED DP No.13/CEI DP 2011-4. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 517KB).

Takashi Kurosaki, Humayun Khan, Mir Kalan Shah, and Muhammad Tahir "Natural Disasters, Relief Aid, and Household Vulnerability in Pakistan: Evidence from a Pilot Survey in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa", August 2011, PRIMCED DP No.12. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 366KB).

Takashi Kurosaki and Hidayat Ullah Khan, "Vulnerability of Microfinance to Strategic Default and Covariate Shocks: Evidence from Pakistan", PRIMCED discussion paper No.10/CEI discussion paper No.2010-13, March 2011 (revised from the October 2009 version with the same titile) (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 1087KB). See the 2012 Developing Economies article.

Takashi Kurosaki, "Compilation of Agricultural Production Data in Areas Currently in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh from 1901/02 to 2001/02", G-COE discussion paper, No.169/ PRIMCED discussion paper, No.6, Februrary 2011. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 1121KB).
Corrigenda (March 2024)

Yasuyuki Sawada, Hiroyuki Yamada, and Takashi Kurosaki, "Is Aid Allocation Consistent with Global Poverty Reduction? A Cross-Donor Comparison", mimeo, April 2009 (revised version of the RIETI Discussion Paper 08-E-025). (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 200KB).

Takashi Kurosaki, "Vulnerability in Pakistan, 2001 - 2004", mimeo, March 2009. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 337KB).

Nobuhiko Fuwa, Seiro Ito, Kensuke Kubo, Takashi Kurosaki, and Yasuyuki Sawada, "How Does Credit Access Affect Children's Time Allocation in a Developing Country? A Case Study from Rural India", IDE DISCUSSION PAPER No. 183, January 2009. (Abstract). (Access to the full paper in PDF).

Kyosuke Kurita and Takashi Kurosaki, "The Dynamics of Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: A Panel Analysis of Regional Data from the Philippines and Thailand," COE Discussion Paper no.223, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. October 2007.(Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 837KB). See the 2011 Asian Economic Journal article.

Fuwa, Nobuhiko, Seiro Ito, Kensuke Kubo, Takashi Kurosaki, and Yasuyuki Sawada. "Is There a Mothers' Dilemma?: Credit Constraint, Mothers' Work and Gender Disparity in Intrahousehold Time Allocation in Rural India." Mimeo, August 2007. A completely-revised version of the paper previously titled "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, Child Labor, and School Enrollment: Evidence from Rural India" (paper presented at the NEUDC 2006 Conference, Cornel University, September 29-30, 2006) (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 522KB).

Kurosaki, Takashi, Yasuyuki Sawada, Asit Banerji, and S.N. Mishra "Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Poverty: Socio-Economic Profiles of Rickshaw Pullers and Owner-Contractors in North-East Delhi." COE Discussion Paper no.205, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. February 2007. (Full paper in PDF, 816KB).

Kurosaki, T. "Dynamics of Livelihood Structure and Assets in Village India, 1975-2004: Literature Survey and Research Agendas," February 2005. (Full paper in PDF, 658KB).

Kurosaki, T., and Humayun Khan "Effects of Human Capital on Farm and Non-Farm Productivity and Occupational Stratification in Rural Pakistan", COE Discussion Paper no.46, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. November 2004. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 479KB). See the 2006 Review of Development Economics article.

Kurosaki, T. "Measurement of Chronic and Transient Poverty: Theory and Application to Pakistan", March 2003. Paper presented at an international conference, "Staying Poor: Chronic Poverty and Development Policy", University of Manchester, April 7-9, 2003 [Discussion Paper Series A No.436, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University]. (Abstract). (Text and table of the paper in PDF, 276KB; Figures of the paper in PDF, 56KB). See the 2006 Journal of Economic Inequality article.

Kurosaki, T. and Mika Ueyama, "Micro Household Surveys and Development Microeconomics: With Special Emphasis on Child Health and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia", In T. Sakurai, J. Furuya, and H. Takagi (eds.), Economic Analyses of Agricultural Technologies and Rural Institutions in West Africa (proceedings of JIRCAS International Workshop 12-13 July 2001, Tsukuba, Japan, published on October 2002), pp.95-106.(Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 57KB).

Kurosaki, T. "Specialization and Diversification in Agricultural Transformation: The Case of Rural Punjab, c.1900-1995, February 2001. IER Discussion Paper Series A No. 406. (Abstract). (Text of the full paper in PDF, 244KB; Figures of the full paper in PDF, 66KB). See the 2003 American Journal of Agricultueal Economics article.

Kurosaki, T. "Human Capital and Elimination of Rural Poverty: A Case Study of the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan", (with Humayun Khan). IER Discussion Paper Series B No. 25, Hitotsubashi University. January 2001. (Abstract). (Full paper with descriptive tables, in PDF, 274KB, Appendix Tables for Data Base, in PDF, 86KB).

Kurosaki, T. "Consumption and Asset Structure in Village India 1975-84," in Economic Development and Quality of Life in South Asia, Proceedings of the International Conference on "November 27-28, 1999, at Aster Plaza, Hiroshima, Japan; Publication of Scientific Research Results No. 5, March 2000: 61-82. (Abstract). (Text of the full paper in PDF, 185KB; Figures of the full paper in PDF, 27KB).

Kurosaki, T. and Anwar Hussain. "Poverty, Risk, and Human Capital in the Rural North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan." IER Discussion Paper Series B No.24, March 1999, Hitotsubashi University. (Abstract). (Full paper without tables and data appendix, in PDF, 190KB, Summary Tables in PDF, 60KB, ).

Kurosaki, T. "Agricultural Growth and Crop Composition in India and Pakistan during the 20th Century: A Historical Retrospect in the Context of Economic Liberalization." Revised version of "Agricultural Growth, Crop Composition, and Effects of the Partition in India and Pakistan, c.1900-1995," a paper presented at the international seminar "International Economics and Development: Asian Experience," March 16-18, 1998, the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India. (Abstract). (Full paper in PDF, 170KB). See the 1999 Economic & Political Weekly article.

Kurosaki, T. "Risk, Household Behavior, and Poverty: A Review." Mimeo. July 1996. (Abstract).

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